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Largest 3d-4f 196-nuclear Gd158Co38 clusters with excellent magnetic cooling

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It is a meaningful and challenging work for structural and synthetic chemists to isolate nano-sized high-nuclearity cluster-molecules. In this work, two largest hetero-metallic nano-clusters Gd158Co38 were obtained via the “multi-anions-template” method. Different from the reported giant hollow-nano-clusters, the Ln158 core in Gd158Co38 (the protein-sized nano-clusters, ca. 4.3 nm × 3.6 nm × 3.5 nm) has the highest Ln nuclear number, which is integrated by twelve halide ions (with the form of icosahedron) as key templates, while Co ions (as 3d metals) are located in its periphery. This emergence indicates a novel structure form of non-open Ln-containing high-nuclearity clusters, and affords a consummate pattern to analyse and assemble the complex cluster-molecules. In addition, Gd158Co38@Cl12 breaks the record magnetic entropy change of 3d–4f clusters with −ΔSmmax = 46.95 J kg−1 K−1 at 7.0 T, 2.0 K.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0306004), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21571103, 21973038), Jiangsu Province (BK20191359), and the Joint Fund for Regional Innovation and Development (U20A2073).

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  1. College of Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, China

    Ning-Fang Li, Xi-Ming Luo, Ji-Lei Wang, Hua Mei & Yan Xu

  2. Coordination Chemistry Institute, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jia Wang & You Song

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Li, NF., Luo, XM., Wang, J. et al. Largest 3d-4f 196-nuclear Gd158Co38 clusters with excellent magnetic cooling. Sci. China Chem. 65, 1577–1583 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1259-9

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