Fascinating interlocked triacontanuclear giant nanocages†
Sukhen
Bala, 
ab
Sohel
Akhtar,
a
Jun-Liang
Liu,
b
Guo-Zhang
Huang,
b
Avik
De,
a
Ming-Liang
Tong
*b
and
Raju
Mondal
*a
ab
Sohel
Akhtar,
a
Jun-Liang
Liu,
b
Guo-Zhang
Huang,
b
Avik
De,
a
Ming-Liang
Tong
*b
and
Raju
Mondal
*a
Abstract
We report herein three air, thermal and solvent stable interlocked triacontanuclear giant nanocages, generated using a node and spacer concept. Interestingly, the crystal structures of the cages are not only nano-dimensional but also exist in the nano-dimension range, which was corroborated with microscopic images. The combination of microscopic and crystallographic data, in effect, led us to a unique advantageous situation of generating nanomaterials with hard-to-come-by structural information at the molecular level.
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