In a new report now published in Nature Asia Materials, Kenshi Harada and a team in materials science and analytical science in Japan and France formed a new environment sensing device that explored the opto-ionic-electronic phenomena of an octahedral molybdenum metal (Mo6) cluster. The team built these nanomaterials, or atomic clusters, with metal atoms bound to each other with accompanying non-metallic atoms. They altered the properties of the materials for a variety of applications by adding functional substances. In this work, Harada et al. developed transparent films made of indium tin oxide on which they deposited hexamolybdenum atomic clusters to investigate the humidity and temperature dependence of the electric properties of the films and to understand how their conductivity altered with varying light conditions. The innovative material has applications as an atmospheric sensor.
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