SupportingInformation: Novel inorganic tin phosphate gel:Multifunctional material Wenyan Huang a,b , Sridhar Komarneni b* , Young Dong Noh b , Jianfeng Ma b,c , Kunfeng Chen d , Dongfeng Xue d , Xiaoqiang Xue a,b and Bibiao Jiang a* a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovolatic Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China. b Materials Research Institute and Department of Ecosystem Science and management, Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. c School of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Changzhou University, Jiangsu, 213164, China. d State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China. * e-mails: komarneni@psu.edu; jiangbibiao@cczu.edu.cn Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for ChemComm. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2018