Design and applications of water-soluble coordination cages

EG Percástegui, TK Ronson, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Functional supramolecular systems: Design and applications

IS Antipin, MV Alfimov, VV Arslanov… - Russian Chemical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Strategies for binding multiple guests in metal–organic cages

FJ Rizzuto, LKS von Krbek, JR Nitschke - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
The binding of multiple guests by a single entity can lead to new modes of host–guest
interactions and thus new applications in, for example, catalysis and sensing. With the aim of …

Mercury chalcogenide quantum dots: material perspective for device integration

C Gréboval, A Chu, N Goubet, C Livache… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystals (NCs) are one of the few nanotechnologies to have attained mass market
applications with their use as light sources for displays. This success relies on Cd-and In …

Disequilibrating azobenzenes by visible-light sensitization under confinement

J Gemen, JR Church, TP Ruoko, N Durandin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photoisomerization of azobenzenes from their stable E isomer to the metastable Z state is
the basis of numerous applications of these molecules. However, this reaction typically …

Multi-stimuli control over assembly and guest binding in metallo-supramolecular hosts based on dithienylethene photoswitches

RJ Li, J Tessarolo, H Lee… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is difficult to assemble multi-component metallo-supramolecular architectures in a non-
statistical fashion, which limits their development toward functional materials. Herein, we …

Endohedral functionalization of chiral metal-organic cages for encapsulating achiral dyes to induce circularly polarized luminescence

X Tang, H Jiang, Y Si, N Rampal, W Gong, C Cheng… - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is useful for 3D optical imaging and optical storage,
but it remains a big challenge to prepare chiral compounds with both strong emission and …

Smart photochromic materials triggered with visible light

AL Leistner, ZL Pianowski - European Journal of Organic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular photoswitches reversibly convert the energy of light into a variety of structural
changes at the molecular level. They can be integrated into smart materials with broad …

Molecular photoswitching in confined spaces

AB Grommet, LM Lee, R Klajn - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In nature, light is harvested by photoactive proteins to drive a range of biological
processes, including photosynthesis, phototaxis, vision, and ultimately life …

Encapsulating semiconductor quantum dots in supramolecular cages enables ultrafast guest–host electron and vibrational energy transfer

S Lu, DJ Morrow, Z Li, C Guo, X Yu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the field of supramolecular chemistry, host–guest systems have been extensively
explored to encapsulate a wide range of substrates, owing to emerging functionalities in …