Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

Although chiral mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) have been synthesised and
studied, enantiopure examples are relatively under-represented in the pantheon of reported …

The first synthetic molecular trefoil knot was prepared in the late 1980s. However, it is only in
the last few years that more complex small‐molecule knot topologies have been realized …

Historically, the interlacing of strands at the molecular level has mainly been limited to
coordination polymers and DNA. Despite being proposed on a number of occasions, the …

Herein some examples of the use of lanthanide ions (f-metal ions) to direct the synthesis of
luminescent self-assembly systems (architectures) will be discussed. This area of lanthanide …

Molecular nanotopology—a term we coined recently—is a rapidly developing field of
research that is emerging out of the confluence of chemical topology with the mechanical …

The use of metal ions to template the synthesis of catenanes by Sauvage and co-workers
was a pivotal moment in the development of the field of interlocked molecules. In this …

Catenanes—molecules comprising two interlocking rings held together like links in a chain—
are topologically non-trivial: a catenane is a topological isomer of its separated rings, but the …

Highly selective and sensitive quantitative detection of ofloxacin (OFX) at ultralow
concentrations in aqueous media and development of new afterglow materials remains a …

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) is the emission featured spatial orientation
equivalent to circular dichroism. Owning to the unique magnetic dipole‐allowed but electric …