Surveying macrocyclic chemistry: from flexible crown ethers to rigid cyclophanes

Z Liu, SKM Nalluri, JF Stoddart - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Macrocycles are molecular entities that display a combination of molecular recognition and
complexation properties with vital implications for host–guest/supramolecular chemistry …

Diverse gatekeepers for mesoporous silica nanoparticle based drug delivery systems

J Wen, K Yang, F Liu, H Li, Y Xu, S Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional cancer chemotherapy is often associated with toxicity issues. Thus, new drug
delivery systems (DDSs) are developed as alternatives owing to their potential to selectively …

Highly compressible glass-like supramolecular polymer networks

Z Huang, X Chen, SJK O'Neill, G Wu, DJ Whitaker… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Supramolecular polymer networks are non-covalently crosslinked soft materials that exhibit
unique mechanical features such as self-healing, high toughness and stretchability …

A synergistic enhancement strategy for realizing ultralong and efficient room‐temperature phosphorescence

ZY Zhang, WW Xu, WS Xu, J Niu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An enhancement strategy is realized for ultralong bright room‐temperature
phosphorescence (RTP), involving polymerization between phosphor monomers and …

Adhesive supramolecular polymeric materials constructed from macrocycle-based host–guest interactions

X Ji, M Ahmed, L Long, NM Khashab… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature uses the power of non-covalent interactions as the basis for many kinds of adhesion
phenomena. Inspired by nature, scientists have prepared various synthetic adhesive …

[HTML][HTML] Host-guest chemistry in supramolecular theranostics

G Yu, X Chen - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Macrocyclic hosts, such as cyclodextrins, calixarenes, cucurbiturils, and pillararenes, exhibit
unparalleled advantages in disease diagnosis and therapy over the past years by fully …

Two-photon polymerization nanolithography technology for fabrication of stimulus-responsive micro/nano-structures for biomedical applications

Z Huang, G Chi-Pong Tsui, Y Deng… - Nanotechnology …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Micro/nano-fabrication technology via two-photon polymerization (TPP) nanolithography is a
powerful and useful manufacturing tool that is capable of generating two dimensional (2D) to …

Stereochemical plasticity modulates cooperative binding in a CoII12L6 cuboctahedron

FJ Rizzuto, JR Nitschke - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Biomolecular receptors are able to process information by responding differentially to
combinations of chemical signals. Synthetic receptors that are likewise capable of multi …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer in a supramolecular assembly of luminescent silver nanoclusters and a cucurbit [8] uril-based host–guest system

S Pramanik, S Chithra, S Rai, S Agrawal… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The understanding of interactions between organic chromophores and biocompatible
luminescent noble metal nanoclusters (NCs) leading to an energy transfer process that has …

Tetrabutylammonium Halides as Selectively Bifunctional Catalysts Enabling the Syntheses of Recyclable High Molecular Weight Salicylic Acid‐Based Copolyesters

F Ren, J Xian, Z Jia, Z Chen, H Fu, R Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To synthesize high molecular weight poly (phenolic ester) via a living ring‐opening
polymerization (ROP) of cyclic phenolic ester monomers remains a critical challenge due to …