A CAS research team focusing on novel inorganic polymers has recently won a second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2002. The scientists are awarded for their work on synthesizing nanocages, nanotubes and nanowires with specific structures, and a series of new polymers with semiconductor properties. Led by Hong Maochun and Wu Xintao in the CAS Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, the research team has yielded large nanocages with a volume over 1000 A3, which is capable of simultaneously containing many kinds of ions and small molecules. In addition, the scientists assembled inogranic-organic nanotubes and stringed into the first ordered metallic-organic nanotube arrays. In line with the rational synthesis approach, they also fabricated various metallic nanowires by activating different clusters.
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