  The field of polyoxometalates (POMs), in recent times, has entered a new
arena of 'soft'-supramolecular interactions, crossing the molecular regime of
covalent bonds. The structures resulting from such 'soft'-supramolecular
interactions are much larger (~10-500 nm in diameter) showing soft-matter
properties. This comment proposes to name them 'Soft' Oxometalates. The comment
after introducing and archiving seminal examples of Soft Oxometalates, gives
few examples from the author's work where Soft Oxometalates are generated
spontaneously and those designed by deliberate chemical reactions (also
followed by very few selected examples from the literature). The comment ends
with an open question: are all POMs soft?
