title: Assembly of supertetrahedral T5 copper-indium sulfide clusters into a super-supertetrahedron of infinite order.
abstract: A Cu-In-S semiconductor consisting of a single piece of a super-supertetrahedron of infinite order has been synthesized through the self-assembly of the largest known Cu-In-S T(5) supertetrahedral cluster. One of the most fascinating structural features of this material is its dual hierarchical architecture. Its open-framework architecture can be considered as a "hollowed-out" cubic ZnS-type structure with exactly 64.8% of the total of 1000 atoms in the 5 x 5 x 5 zinc blende supercell removed. The synthetic realization of this material serves to demonstrate a new method for property engineering of semiconducting materials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
authors.forename: Le
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xianhui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bu
authors.forename: Jianzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Pingyun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Feng