templation

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templation (uncountable)

  1. (sciences) The formation of, or interaction with, a template.
    • 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)[1], volume 19, →DOI:
      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.