Themed collection Tin Collection – a celebration of our 10th anniversary

Clusters containing tin atoms show a huge variety of molecular structures, chemical as well as physical properties.

Capping TTFtt enables facile transmetalation in three different oxidation states.

Sn alloying tunes a halide double perovskite to absorb visible light, in a nontoxic composition.

Unprecedented tin-oxo clusters with record high-nuclearities and electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction applications have been prepared via solvent dependent assembly strategies.

Aqueous acid-based synthesis of lead-free tin halide perovskites with near-unity photoluminescence quantum efficiency and high chemical yield is described.

Triply fused cluster: edge shared of three [Rh@Sn₁₀] subunits lead to the largest endohedral polystannide with an entirely new triply fused topology.

A series of A₂SrM^IVS₄ compounds concurrently exhibiting wide bandgaps and good NLO responses were proven as promising IR NLO materials.

Thermolysis of molecular precursors followed by liquid phase exfoliation accesses 2-D IV–VI semiconductor nanomaterials.

A ‘frustrated Lewis pair’-type mechanism allows the first observation of reversible H₂ addition to a single-site main-group complex.

Phosphorus doped tin(IV) oxide (P:SnO₂) films, with resistivity values of 7.27 × 10⁻⁴ Ω cm and improved visible light transmission, have been synthesised by AACVD.

In this study, we, for the first time, report a high Cu solubility of 11.8% in single crystal SnSe microbelts synthesized via a facile solvothermal route.

A rare tin–cobalt bond dissociates homolytically with accurately measured energetics, reversibly releasing a four-coordinate tin radical that catalyzes alkyne trimerization.

Topotactic solution synthesis yields nanostructured tin chalcogenides, SnS_1−xSe_x with controllable composition; spark plasma sintered SnS_0.1Se_0.9 achieves ZT ≈ 1.16 at 923 K via microstructural texture tuning.