Three new metal chalcogenide open frameworks built through co-assembly and/or hybrid assembly from supertetrahedral T5-InOS and T3-InS nanoclusters

摘要

Reported here are three new metal chalcogenide open frameworks built from supertetrahedral [In35S52O8] (denoted as T5-InOS or o-T5) and [In10S20] (denoted as T3-InS) nanoclusters of different sizes and compositions via co-assembly and/ or hybrid assembly modes. Such a set of cluster-based superlattices with dia topological structures clearly exhibit quantum size effects and electronic coupling interaction of adjacent nanoclusters, which can effectively explain that the band gap of the T3-(o-T5) hybrid-assembled material lies in the middle of T3-T3 and (o-T5)-(o-T5) co-assembled materials.