Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters

XM Luo, YK Li, XY Dong, SQ Zang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Beyond charge balance: counter‐cations in polyoxometalate chemistry

A Misra, K Kozma, C Streb… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polyoxometalates (POMs) are molecular metal‐oxide anions applied in energy conversion
and storage, manipulation of biomolecules, catalysis, as well as materials design and …

Oxygen evolution reaction dynamics, faradaic charge efficiency, and the active metal redox states of Ni–Fe oxide water splitting electrocatalysts

M Görlin, P Chernev… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mixed Ni–Fe oxides are attractive anode catalysts for efficient water splitting in solar fuels
reactors. Because of conflicting past reports, the catalytically active metal redox state of the …

Nonclassical nucleation and growth of inorganic nanoparticles

J Lee, J Yang, SG Kwon, T Hyeon - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
The synthesis of nanoparticles with particular compositions and structures can lead to
nanoparticles with notable physicochemical properties, thus promoting their use in various …

Dioxygen in polyoxometalate mediated reactions

IA Weinstock, RE Schreiber, R Neumann - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
In this review article, we consider the use of molecular oxygen in reactions mediated by
polyoxometalates. Polyoxometalates are anionic metal oxide clusters of a variety of …

Coordination-delayed-hydrolysis method for the synthesis and structural modulation of titanium-oxo clusters

L Zhang, X Fan, X Yi, X Lin, J Zhang - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atomically precise titanium-oxo clusters (TOCs) are the structure and reactivity
model compounds of technically important TiO2 materials, which could help build structure …

Unravelling the growth mechanism of the co-precipitation of iron oxide nanoparticles with the aid of synchrotron X-Ray diffraction in solution

AP LaGrow, MO Besenhard, A Hodzic, A Sergides… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Co-precipitation is the most ubiquitous method for forming iron oxide nanoparticles. For a
typical co-precipitation synthesis, the pH of a ferrous and/or ferric ion solution is increased …

Design and synthesis of polyoxometalate-framework materials from cluster precursors

L Vilà-Nadal, L Cronin - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Inorganic oxide materials are used in semiconductor electronics, ion exchange, catalysis,
coatings, gas sensors and as separation materials. Although their synthesis is well …

S-scheme Bi-oxide/Ti-oxide molecular hybrid for photocatalytic cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides

C Liu, H Niu, D Wang, C Gao, A Said, Y Liu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Lewis acidic sites and reducing power of a photocatalyst are critical for its performance
in CO2 activation for cycloadditions. In this study, we designed and synthesized a …

Revealing the Electrocatalytic Self-Assembly Route from Building Blocks into Giant Mo-Blue Clusters

K Li, S Zhang, KL Zhu, LP Cui, L Yang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of single-core molybdate into hundreds of cores of giant molybdenum blue
(Mo-blue) clusters has remained a long-standing unresolved scientific puzzle. To reveal this …