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SXU makes scientific breakthrough

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2016-12-28

Shanxi University’s molecular science institute has made a breakthrough in the coordination chemistry field.

A figure included in the research report describing the frames with the record high coordination number of 20, namely the tubular molecular rotor [B2-Ta@B18]- (left), and the perfect boron drum [Ta@B20]- (right). [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]

A figure included into the research report describing the findings, which is expected to impact nanostructure units for materials of catalytic, energy-storage and nano-assembly functions. [Photo/sxu.edu.cn]

The discovery was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and accomplished with joint efforts from Shanxi University research group headed by Professor Li Sidian, Tsinghua University’s team led by Professor Li Jun, and USA Brown University Professor Lai-Sheng Wang’s team.

It was published on Dec 20 in the leading journal for publication of communications on important new developments in chemistry, ChemComm (Chemical Communications), the publisher of which is the Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain).

An old cover of ChemComm (Chemical Communications). The peer-reviewed scientific journal, launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry of Great Britain, is renowned as the fastest publisher of articles providing information on new avenues of research, drawn from all the world's major areas of chemical research. ChemComm publishes 100 issues per year. [Photo/rsc.org]

View the full text of the paper by:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/cc/c6cc09570d#!divAbstract

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