Robert Love

I am a third-year graduate student in the Velian lab, were my research focuses on utilizing atomically-precise inorganic clusters, M3Co6Se8L6 (M = transition metal, L = Ph2PN(-)Tol) for the synthesis of site-differentiated clusters with different edge metals and as superatomic building blocks for the self-assembly of materials. The different edge metal identities on the site-differentiated cluster, M3-xM’xCo6Se8L6, will be leveraged for differential reactivity, such as for cascading catalysis. The self-assembly of materials using these clusters can be achieved by using polytopic organic and inorganic linkers to link the clusters together, and by utilizing two different clusters to form binary charge-transfer solids.