Coordination-directed self-assembly of nano-cages: metal ion-change, ligand-extending, shape-control and transdermal drug delivery

Abstract

The combination of different pyridyl ligands and metal ions has proven to be a very reliable strategy for controlling the coordination mode of the heterometallic coordination nano-cages.

Directed assembly of fullerenols via electrostatic and coordination interactions to fabricate diverse and water-soluble metal cation–fullerene nanocluster complexes

“…Metal ion–nanoscale cluster coordinated aggregation complexes have received great attention to produce a variety of functional engineered nanomaterials with promising characteristics of diverse architecture, great versatility, and applicability that have enabled a broad range of applications in materials science, energy, environment, and biomedicine, 1–3 including pollution restorers, 4,5 environmental purifiers, 6 batteries and solar cells, 7 catalysis, 8 artificial enzymes, 9 templating, 10 sensing, 11 anticancer drug delivery, 12 and theranostics. 13 As a few recent highlights, for example, the selected and precise coordination of a nanoscale polyoxometalate cluster with hexavalent actinides over trivalent lanthanides gave rise to a new ultrafiltration-based separation method for high-level waste in nuclear energy.…”