Assembly of supertetrahedral T5 copper-indium sulfide clusters into a super-supertetrahedron of infinite order.
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.
Wang
Le
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Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
Wu
Tao
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Zuo
Fan
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Zhao
Xiang
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Bu
Xianhui
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Wu
Jianzhong
J
Feng
Pingyun
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