The magnetocaloriceffect is considered as an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly
technique which can take cooling technology to the next level. Apart from its commercial …

Solid state refrigeration is a viable alternative for the conventional gas-compression
technology due to the environmental friendliness of its materials, energy efficiency, and low …

A series of heterometallic tetranuclear clusters, Ln2Ni2 (NO3) 4L4 (μ3-OCH3) 2· 2
(CH3CN)(Ln= Gd (1), Tb (2), Dy (3), Ho (4), Er (5); HL= methyl 3-methoxysalicylate), were …

Two isostructural 2D MOFs ([Ln7 (CDA) 6 (HCOO) 3 (μ3-OH) 6 (H2O) 8] n, abbreviated as 1-
Gd and 2-Dy) were successfully synthesized under solvothermal conditions. The self …

The formation of high-nuclearity clusters of lanthanide usually involves many complicated
self-assembly processes. Thus, tracking the formation process is extremely difficult and …

Two complexes {[GdCu5 (GlyHA) 5 (H2O) 7Cr (C2O4) 3]· 11.02 H2O} n (1) and {{[GdCu5
(GlyHA) 5 (H2O) 6] μ2-[Cu (C2O4) 2 (H2O)]} 2μ4-[Cu (C2O4) 2]· 15.8 H2O} n (2), were …

The reaction of a multisite coordination ligand, LH3, with Cu (II) salts and Ln (NO3) 3· n H2O
in a 1: 2: 1 stoichiometric ratio in the presence of triethylamine was found to afford a series of …

In this paper, we proposed a number rule for 3d-4f and 4f cyclic coordination cages (CCCs);
that is, CCCs consisting of vertex-sharing M4 (μ3-OH) 4 (M= 3d transition metal or 4f …

Three isostrucutral dodecanuclear clusters with the general formula [Ln12 (fsa) 12 (μf3-OH)
12 (DMF) 12]· nDMF (fsa2− is the dianion of 3-formylsalicylic acid; Ln= Eu 1, Gd 2, Dy 3) …

Fourteen 1D coordination polymers of rare earth pivalates [Ln (Piv) 3]∞(Ln= Y, La, Pr, Nd,
Sm− Lu) were synthesized and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy …