{"id":140765,"date":"2022-06-18T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T20:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-serendipitously-discover-rare-cluster-compound"},"modified":"2022-06-18T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T20:02:33","slug":"scientists-serendipitously-discover-rare-cluster-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-serendipitously-discover-rare-cluster-compound","title":{"rendered":"Scientists serendipitously discover rare cluster compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-serendipitously-discover-rare-cluster-compound2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Cell-Material Sciences have discovered a novel cluster compound that could prove useful as a catalyst. Compounds, called polyoxometalates, that contain a large metal-oxide cluster carry a negative charge. They are found everywhere, from anti-viral medicines to rechargeable batteries and flash memory devices.<\/p>\n<p>The new cluster compound is a hydroxy-iodide (HSbOI) and is unusual, as it has large, positively charged clusters. Only a handful of such positively charged cluster compounds have been found and studied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">science<\/a>, the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new material<\/a> or molecule can create a new science,\u201d says Kyoto University chemist Hiroshi Kageyama. \u201cI believe that these new positively charged clusters have great potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Cell-Material Sciences have discovered a novel cluster compound that could prove useful as a catalyst. Compounds, called polyoxometalates, that contain a large metal-oxide cluster carry a negative charge. They are found everywhere, from anti-viral medicines to rechargeable batteries and flash memory devices. The new cluster compound is a hydroxy-iodide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}