The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Atomic clusters, consisting of a few to a few thousand atoms, have emerged over the past 40
years as the ultimate nanoparticles, whose structure and properties can be controlled one …

After the discovery of fullerene-C60, it took almost two decades for the possibility of boron-
based fullerene structures to be considered. So far, there has been no experimental …

For a long time, Zintl ions of Group 14 and 15 elements were considered to be remarkable
species domiciled in solid‐state chemistry that have unexpected stoichiometries and …

Atomic clusters composed of homo or heteroatomic species constitute an intermediate
phase of matter where every atom counts and whose properties depend on their size …

Endohedral Zintl clusters—multi-metallic anionic molecules in which a d-block or f-block
metal atom is enclosed by p-block (semi) metal atoms—are very topical in contemporary …

Free-standing boron nanocages or borospherenes have been observed recently for B 40−
and B 40. There is evidence that a family of borospherenes may exist. However, the smallest …

The newly discovered borospherenes B40−/0 and B39− mark the onset of a new class of
boron nanostructures. Based on extensive first‐principles calculations, we introduce herein …

The solution chemistry of Group 14 Zintl-type clusters is of growing interest as a result of
their potential to be used as molecular building blocks for the construction of nanoscale …

The endohedral stannaspherene cluster anion [Ir@ Sn12] 3− was synthesized in two steps.
The reaction of K4Sn9 with [IrCl (cod)] 2 (cod: 1, 5‐cyclooctadienyl) in ethylenediamine (en) …