In situ self-assembly—the in situ formation of complex materials via biochemical reactions of
monomers—has enhanced the efficacy of drug delivery for cancer therapy and imaging. So …

Conspectus Chirality is a pervasive structural feature of nature and crucial to the
organization and function of nearly all biological systems. At the molecular level, the biased …

Two-dimensional porous metallo-supramolecular polymers (MSPs) have shown promising
prospects for electrochemical-controlled functional devices as their highly reversible metal …

Owing to the reversible, directional and predictable nature of metal–ligand coordination,
coordination-driven self-assembly has emerged as a powerful bottom-up strategy for …

Lanthanide-containing functional complexes have found a variety of applications in
materials science and biomedicine because of their unique electroptical and magnetic …

Upconversion (UC) is a fascinating anti-Stokes-like optical process with promising
applications in diverse fields. However, known UC mechanisms are mainly based on direct …

Metallo-supramolecular chemistry based on the reversible, directional, and predictable
noncovalent interaction of metal–ligand coordination has been widely applied in …

Biological macromolecules always function through a collective behavior of the aggregated
constituents, which usually are self-assembled together via noncovalent interactions …

Since the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1895, its use has been ubiquitous, from
medical and environmental applications to materials sciences,,,–. X-ray characterization …

Understanding the composition, structure and stability of larger synthetic molecules is crucial
for their design, yet currently the analytical tools commonly used do not always provide this …