@article{ZhangKochovskiLeeetal.2019,
  author    = {Zhang, Su-Yun and Kochovski, Zdravko and Lee, Hui-Chun and Lu, Yan and Zhang, Hemin and Zhang, Jie and Sun, Jian-Ke and Yuan, Jiayin},
  title     = {Ionic organic cage-encapsulating phase-transferable metal clusters},
  series = {Chemical science},
  volume    = {10},
  journal   = {Chemical science},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {2041-6520},
  doi       = {10.1039/c8sc04375b},
  pages     = {1450 -- 1456},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Exploration of metal clusters (MCs) adaptive to both aqueous and oil phases without disturbing their size is promising for a broad scope of applications. The state-of-the-art approach via ligand-binding may perturb MCs' size due to varied metal-ligand binding strength when shuttling between solvents of different polarity. Herein, we applied physical confinement of a series of small noble MCs (<1 nm) inside ionic organic cages (I-Cages), which by means of anion exchange enables reversible transfer of MCs between aqueous and hydrophobic solutions without varying their ultrasmall size. Moreover, the MCs@I-Cage hybrid serves as a recyclable, reaction-switchable catalyst featuring high activity in liquid-phase NH3BH3 (AB) hydrolysis reaction with a turnover frequency (TOF) of 115 min-1.},
  language  = {en}
}