Three-Dimensional Covalent Co-Assembly between Inorganic Supertetrahedral Clusters and Imidazolates

摘要

Supertetrahedral chalcogenide clusters are of high current interest because their unique compositions and structures allow them to border several research areas including semiconductor nanoparticles, crystalline porous materials, and inorganic-organic hybrid framework materials.While each of these research areas has undergone dramatic growth in recent decades, integration of synthetic and structural concepts from these different areas into a coherent synthetic methodology to develop new families of materials that combine functionalities of these individual material types is still at a nascent stage. Composite materials in which chalcogenide clusters and organic functional molecules are covalently assembled into ordered 3D arrays belong to such new families of materials.