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Vanadium oxides with various connectivities of distorted VO₆ polyhedra are characterized by tremendous structural diversity, which make them a seemingly huge playground for solid-state chemists.

In this exciting CrystEngComm Hot Article, Sarbajit Banerjee et al. describe a novel seeded growth strategy to obtain nanostars of VO₂ and V₂O₅.

The synthetic strategy offers a reproducible alternative to previous approaches for growing octahedral microcrystallites and nanostars with star, snowflake, and asterisk geometries.

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A VO-seeded approach for the growth of star-shaped VO₂ and V₂O₅ nanocrystals: facile synthesis, structural characterization, and elucidation of electronic structure
Luisa Whittaker, Jesus M. Velazquez and Sarbajit Banerjee
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00832J