National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 36(115), p. 8895-8900, 2018
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Significance Hierarchical self-assembly is a powerful route allowing the elaboration of complex supramolecular architectures with emergent structuration or properties. Starting from well-defined molecular building units, this synthetic strategy relies on the construction of a preassembled structural motif that can further self-assemble through additional noncovalent interactions. In this context, we developed a system based on a covalent organic–inorganic polyoxometalate hybrid building block combining metal-driven self-assembly and electrostatic interactions. We herein show that in this system, the supramolecular organization can be controlled by a redox stimulus and/or the solvent composition giving rise to various types of nanoarchitectures from discrete metallomacrocycles to 1D worm-like nanoobjects.