Challenges and opportunities:•The paramagnetic zero-valent species, middle-size clusters, heavier group 13 congeners are untrodden.•Investigation of the ability species to transfer elemental fragments En(0) other substrates remains underdeveloped.•A stepwise catenation aimed at a precise construction main-group allotropes could offer an exciting new avenue for materials science. This perspectiv...

China-US Workshop on Materials Science 02 POROUS FRAMEWORKS BASED ON INDIUM AND ORGANIC LIGANDS Maochun Hong Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China May 23 – 25, 2005, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BEIJING, CHINA 2 China-US Workshop on Materials Science Abstract 03 METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND POLYHEDRA (MOFS AND MOPS): NEW...