Spotlight on ingenious strategies to precise synthesize nanoclusters with inorganic polyoxometalate ligands: from fully covered to surface exposed structures

Noble metal nanoclusters have attracted great scientific interests due to their tempting properties and applications. Significant strides have been made in recent years to synthesis atomically precise nanoclusters by utilizing polyoxometalates as protecting ligands. Remarkably, the group of Professor Suzuki from the University of Tokyo has made a great contribution in this field. Here we spotlight on four related papers in this area and present a brief highlight of these publications.