Transition Metal Oxide–Based Storage Materials

Abstract

Polyoxometalates (POMs) can also be referred to as molecular metal oxides due to their molecular composition and their position between monomeric entities and bulk oxides. In addition, silicon-based traditional electronic storage devices need to face the evolution that incorporating molecular metal oxides could provide. POMs, otherwise known as molecular metal oxides, have been known of for centuries but until the last hundred years our understanding of chemistry and engineering simply was not advanced enough to allow for sufficient analysis into their structures. In order to drive, direct and trap the self-assembly of molecular metal oxide dependent building blocks, clusters, and materials in solution, authors must acknowledge that such processes can be driven by redox reactions, ion exchange, metal unit substitution. It is worth noting that there has been a lot of research in recent years into determining position and effects of critical sizes and those POMs in general have been garnering attention for making strides in breaching the Nanoworld.