Observing the Hierarchical Self‐Assembly and Architectural Bistability of Hybrid Molecular Metal Oxides Using Ion‐Mobility Mass Spectrometry

This structural flexibility is tantalizing in terms of thepotential for real design but, given the plethora of species insolution,understandingandhencecontrollingself-assemblyisextremely demanding. In this respect we have recently beenemploying electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in the characterization of the primary, secondary, andtertiary structures of POM clusters.