title: Engineering polyoxometalates with emergent properties.
abstract: Polyoxometalates are clusters of metal-oxide units, comprising a large diversity of nanoscale structures, and have many common building blocks; in fact polyoxometalate clusters are perhaps the largest non-biologically derived molecules structurally characterised. Not only can polyoxometalates have gigantic nanoscale molecular structures, but they also a have a vast array of physical properties, many of which can be specifically 'engineered-in'. Here we describe how building block libraries of polyoxometalates can be used to construct systems with important catalytic, electronic, and structural properties. We also show that it is possible to construct complex chemical systems based upon polyoxometalates, manipulating the templating/self templating rules to exhibit emergent processes from the molecular to the macroscopic scale.
authors.affiliation: WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
authors.forename: Haralampos N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Miras
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: De-Liang
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Leroy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cronin
mesh_terms: D002616:Chemical Engineering; D060326:Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic; D015195:Drug Design; D017973:Tungsten Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D000099294:Polyoxometalates
chemical_list: D017973:Tungsten Compounds; C102296:polyoxometalate I; D000099294:Polyoxometalates