The design and construction of high-nuclear polyoxometalate (POM) clusters remain a
severe challenge, but attract significant interest on account of their impressive structural …

The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

The continued development of molecular architectures of consequence to both longstanding
and newly recognized problems demands ever evolving synthetic routes, characterizations …

Searching for suitable methods to construct all-inorganic cage materials by using
polyoxometalates (POMs) as secondary building units (SBUs) has been of great interest …

Following Nature's lessons, today chemists can cross the boundary of the small molecule
world to construct multifunctional and highly complex molecular nano-objects up to protein …

Catalyst plays a very important role in the exploration of new energy. To obtain a highly
efficient electrocatalyst for the glucose oxidation and tiny metal nanocluster catalysts, a …

Size and shape criteria for guest binding inside the cavity of an octanuclear cubic
coordination cage in water have been established using a new fluorescence displacement …

The creation of a perfect hollow nanoscopic sphere of metal centers is clearly an
unrealizable synthetic challenge. It is, however, an inspirational challenge from the …

Here we report the formation of giant {Mo126W30} polyoxometalate cages templated by π‐
conjugated planar ligands. Their inorganic shells incorporate arrays of 18 stacked aromatic …

Stable porous ionic liquid-water gel induced by inorganic salts was created for the first time.
The porous gel was used to develop a one-step method to synthesize supported metal …