Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2–3 decades.
This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose …

The design and synthesis of lanthanide clusters with novel topological connections and
desirable properties are attracting extensive attention. Researchers have obtained …

The review presents a bird-eye view on the state of research in the field of giant
nonbiological discrete metal complexes and ions of nanometer size, which are structurally …

The effective capture and storage of radioiodine are of worldwide interest for sustainable
nuclear energy. However, the direct observation of ambiguous binding sites that …

In this perspective, we provide an overview of the recent achievements in luminescent
lanthanide-based molecular cluster-aggregates (MCAs) and illustrate why MCAs can be …

Zero-dimensional cluster complexes and coordination polymers for magnetic refrigeration
have attracted great interest in the last decade. In-situ synthesis is a widely-used method to …

Magnetic refrigerants with a large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in a wide temperature range
and low magnetic ordering temperature (T o) in the sub-kelvin temperature region are not …

Gigantic coordination molecules assembled from a large number of metal ions and organic
ligands are structurally and functionally challenging to characterize. Here we show that a …

Polyoxometalates (POMs), a kind of molecular metal oxide cluster with unique physical–
chemical properties, have made essential contributions to creating efficient and robust …

Despite wide potential applications of Gd-clusters in magnetocaloric effect (MCE) owing to f7
electron configuration of Gd (III), the structural improvement in order to enhance MCE …