Mechanically interlocked molecules are perhaps best known as components of molecular
machines, a view further reinforced by the Nobel Prize in 2016 to Stoddart and Sauvage …

The active template synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures exploits
the dual ability of various structural elements (metals or, in the case of metal-free active …

All biological pumps are autonomous catalysts; they maintain the out-of-equilibrium
conditions of the cell by harnessing the energy released from their catalytic decomposition of …

Water-based polymers have been widely used in coating materials, but their durability and
service life are often greatly reduced due to macroscopic damage or cracking caused by …

We report a new class of synthetic molecular pumps that use a stepwise information ratchet
mechanism to achieve the kinetic gating required to sequester their macrocyclic substrates …

The click concept, as originally discussed by Sharpless, Finn, and Kolb, is both powerful and
simple. Kolb et al. suggested that in the search for functional molecules, chemists should …

Over the last two decades ratchet mechanisms have transformed the understanding and
design of stochastic molecular systems—biological, chemical and physical—in a move away …

Mechanically interlocked molecules, such as rotaxanes and catenanes, are composed of
two or more covalent subcomponents threaded through one another such that they cannot …

Challenges for the development of efficacious new superbases include their ease of
synthesis, chemical stability, and high basicity, while minimizing nucleophilicity is important …

The recent advances in accelerated polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs)
enriched the toolbox to prepare well-defined polypeptide materials. Herein we report the use …