Building materials with clusters instead of atoms promises unconventional properties, but those 'superatomic solids' are often too fragile to manipulate. Now, intercalating a guest within an ionic layered solid made of fullerenes and metal chalcogenide clusters greatly alters its conductivity and optical properties without disrupting its crystalline structure.
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11 December 2017
In the News & Views 'Superatomic solids: Intercalation without altercation', in Fig. 1, the crystal structures in panels b and c had been erroneously swapped, this has been corrected after print 11 December 2017.
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Khanna, S., Reber, A. Intercalation without altercation. Nature Chem 9, 1151–1152 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2895
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