Giant self-contained metallosupramolecular entities

We present an approach to fabricate very large, soluble, self-contained metallosupramolecular entities employing a template-directed strategy based on charged nanoparticles: consecutive deposition of negatively charged macromolecules and positively charged metallosupramolecular coordination polyelectrolytes is exploited to assemble the metallosupramolecular components on the nanoparticles.