templation

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noun

The formation of, or interaction with, a template.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nountemplation (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesciencesThe formation of, or interaction with, a template.

    The rotaxanes can be surface assembled on to gold electrodes through anion templation under click copper(I)-catalysed Huisgen cycloaddition conditions to form rotaxane molecular films, which, after template removal, respond electrochemically and selectively to chloride.

    2013 October 14, Joshua Lehr et al., “Anion Sensing by Solution- and Surface-Assembled Osmium(II) Bipyridyl Rotaxanes”, in Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), volume 19, →DOI
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