Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

On-surface preparation of coordinated lanthanide-transition-metal clusters

  • Jing Liu,
  • Jie Li,
  • Zhen Xu,
  • Xiong Zhou,
  • Qiang Xue,
  • Tianhao Wu,
  • Mingjun Zhong,
  • Ruoning Li,
  • Rong Sun,
  • Ziyong Shen,
  • Hao Tang,
  • Song Gao,
  • Bingwu Wang,
  • Shimin Hou,
  • Yongfeng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21911-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The preparation of lanthanide-transition metal clusters containing multiple lanthanide atoms remains challenging. Here, the authors present the controlled on-surface formation of ligand-stabilized heterometallic Ce/Au clusters containing two, three and four Ce atoms bridged by Au adatoms.