Recent advances in the structural design and regulation of lanthanide clusters: Formation and self-assembly mechanisms

YL Li, HL Wang, ZH Zhu, FP Liang, HH Zou - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
The design and synthesis of lanthanide clusters with novel topological connections and
desirable properties are attracting extensive attention. Researchers have obtained …

Recent advances on high-nuclear polyoxometalate clusters

JC Liu, JW Zhao, C Streb, YF Song - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The design and construction of high-nuclear polyoxometalate (POM) clusters remain a
severe challenge, but attract significant interest on account of their impressive structural …

Revealing the chirality origin and homochirality crystallization of Ag14 nanocluster at the molecular level

XQ Liang, YZ Li, Z Wang, SS Zhang, YC Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Although chirality is an ever-present characteristic in biology and some artificial molecules,
controlling the chirality and demystifying the chirality origin of complex assemblies remain …

Assemblies of increasingly large Ln-containing polyoxoniobates and intermolecular aggregation–disaggregation interconversions

RD Lai, J Zhang, XX Li, ST Zheng… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An oxalate-assisted lanthanide (Ln) incorporation strategy is first demonstrated for creating
rare high-nuclearity Ln-containing polyoxoniobates (PONbs). With the strategy, a series of …

The Gigantic {Ni36Gd102} Hexagon: A Sulfate-Templated “Star-of-David” for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Magnetic Cooling

WP Chen, PQ Liao, PB Jin, L Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

Unlocking robust lithium storage performance in high 1T-phase purity MoS2 constructed by Mg intercalation

F Chen, C Sun, SJ Robertson, S Chen, Y Zhu, M Shao… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Metallic phase molybdenum disulfide (1 T MoS 2) is considered one of the most promising
anode materials in lithium-ion batteries owing to its outstanding physical and …

A Giant Heterometallic Polyoxometalate Nanocluster for Enhanced Brain‐Targeted Glioma Therapy

N Song, M Lu, J Liu, M Lin, P Shangguan… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Giant heterometallic polyoxometalate (POM) clusters with precise atom structures, flexibly
adjustable and abundant active sites are promising for constructing functional nanodrugs …

Synthesis of Isotypic Giant Polymolybdate Cages for Efficient Photocatalytic C–C Coupling Reactions

JM Lin, ZB Mei, C Guo, JR Li, Y Kuang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The construction of isotypic high-nuclearity inorganic cages with identical pristine parent
structure and increasing nuclearity is highly important for molecular growth and structure …

Structural Evolution of Giant Polyoxometalate: From “Keplerate” to “Lantern” Type Mo132 for Improved Oxidation Catalysis

J Liu, N Jiang, JM Lin, ZB Mei, LZ Dong… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Structural variants of high‐nuclearity clusters are extremely important for their modular
assembly study and functional expansion, yet the synthesis of such giant structural variants …

Human versus robots in the discovery and crystallization of gigantic polyoxometalates

V Duros, J Grizou, W Xuan, Z Hosni… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of new gigantic molecules formed by self‐assembly and crystal growth is
challenging as it combines two contingent events; first is the formation of a new molecule …