Wednesday, 20 February 2019

'Butterfly-shaped' palladium subnano cluster built in 3-D

Scientists have produced a 3-D cluster molecule based on palladium. First, they created a ‘butterfly-shaped’ Pd4 framework, using an organosilicon compounds bearing the aromatic substitutents as both template and support for the palladium atoms. Then, using another template, they connected two butterfly-shaped Pd4 skeleton, via chlorine, into a Pd6 cluster based on edge-sharing tetrahedra. This strategy using organosilicons to design customized subnano-architectures may enable design of a range of functional materials and catalysts.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190220103454.htm



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