Solubility issues are among the most frequently encountered problems for chemical experimentalists. This holds true for the laboratory scale, but often poses a bottleneck in industrial exploitation as well. Solubility problems arise from two possible directions: dissolution of nonpolar entities into polar media, or vice versa. Herein we present the dissolution of the nonpolar dye indigo, which is not normally encountered in aqueous solution. Its utterly surprising mobilization into the aqueous phase is facilitated with relative ease by the aid of nanoscopic clay shuttles, which consecutively form a nanoclay hybrid, in strong reminiscence of the famous Maya Blue pigment.
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