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 …

Cobalt-based zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (Co-ZIF) have attracted intensive interest in
multivariate applications because of their high specific surface area and presence of great …

Steering soft robots in a self-regulated manner remains a grand challenge, which often
requires continuous symmetry breaking and recovery steps for persistent motion. Although …

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 …

We report herein the regioselective synthesis of all-carbon lemniscular nanohoops bis-po-
CC and bis-pm-TC by the rational control of ring closures at the different positions of planar …

Molecular machines are essential dynamic components for fuel production, cargo delivery,
information storage and processing in living systems. Scientists have demonstrated that they …

Mechanically interlocked molecules based on oligoparaphenylene‐derived nanohoops,
particularly those without heteroatoms, are synthetically challenging and topologically …

The atomically precise synthesis of topological molecular carbons such as Möbius carbon
nanobelts (MCNBs) is a challenge in synthetic organic chemistry because it requires careful …

Facilitated by multiple stacking interactions between components, two kinds of metalla-links
containing molecular Borromean rings (623 links) and head-to-tail cyclic [3] catenanes (613 …

From being an aesthetic molecular object to a building block for the construction of
molecular machines, catenanes and related mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) …