Molecular Insights into Polyoxometalate-Based Functional Materials
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecule-based materials are built from precisely engineered molecular building blocks, enabling unparalleled control over the final material through a genuine bottom-up strategy. The diversity in the nature and properties of the constituent molecules ensures a high degree of versatility in the materials obtained. From a mechanistic point of view, characterizing the building blocks within the material at the molecular scale provides a detailed understanding of the material’s macroscopic behavior. Polyoxometalates (POMs) are nanometric molecular oxides composed of early transition metals, offering an almost limitless diversity in composition, size, and shape. Their rich palette of redox, photoredox, magnetic, and luminescent properties makes them powerful building blocks for the development of advanced molecule-based functional materials. They can be assembled into nanometric and micrometric films, micelles, gels, membranes, crystals, ionic liquids, and various composites (polymer/POMs, metallic nanoparticles/POMs, layered double hydroxide/POMs) for a broad spectrum of applications in energy, sustainable chemistry, biomedicine, molecular electronics and spintronics, and photocatalysis—fields that address major societal challenges today. Deciphering the behavior of these POM-based materials requires advanced characterization techniques, including X-ray diffraction, electronic and near-probe microscopies, and X-ray spectroscopies. Full papers, communications, and reviews on these topics are welcome.
Dr. Florence Volatron
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- POM-based materials
- nanoobjects
- thin films
- multidimensional networks
- composites
- soft matter
- nanoscale microscopies
- X-ray spectroscopies
- X-ray diffraction
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