Stimuli-responsive gold–polyoxometalate multielectron transformers

Abstract

Gold and atomically precise polyoxometalates (POMs) are widely used materials with electron reservoir redox properties. The combination of optically excited gold nanoparticles, gold surface/tip electrodes, or molecular gold(I) complexes with V(V)6 Lindqvist-, MnMo(VI)6 Anderson-Evans-, and PW(VI)12 Keggin-type POM structures leads to interfacial multielectron transformations with far-reaching implications for electronics, photonics, biomedical diagnostics, and catalysis.