Rücktitelbild: Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Polyoxometalates by Bridging with Mixed-Valent Multinuclear Platinum Complexes (Angew. Chem. 41/2024)
Graphical Abstract
Spherical polyoxometalates , which are insulators, were successfully transformed into semiconductors by linking them with one-dimensional multinuclear platinum complexes. The assembles comprising two kinds of molecules are paramagnetic due to mixed-valent metal oxidation states, where unpaired electrons are delocalized over these backbones. Various derivatives with bandgap modulations are expected, represented by the flow of electricity in electronic circuits containing them, as reported by Kazuhiro Uemura et al. in their Research Article (e202407743).