1 Laboratorio de Nanotecnología Molecular, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Alicante, Carretera San Vicente s/n, E-03690, Alicante, Spain.
Surfactant-assisted co-condensation of an emissive tetranuclear alkynyl-phosphine copper cluster with TEOS affords a hydrothermally stable blue-emitter mesoporous hybrid metal complex-silica material.