Probing and manipulating noncovalent interactions in functional polymeric systems

J Chen, Q Peng, X Peng, H Zhang, H Zeng - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Noncovalent interactions, which usually feature tunable strength, reversibility, and
environmental adaptability, have been recognized as driving forces in a variety of biological …

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 …

A dynamic assembly-induced emissive system for advanced information encryption with time-dependent security

Q Wang, B Lin, M Chen, C Zhao, H Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of advanced materials for information encryption with time-dependent
features is essential to meet the increasing demand on encryption security. Herein, smart …

Supramolecular polymerization through kinetic pathway control and living chain growth

M Wehner, F Würthner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Supramolecular polymers exhibit fascinating structures, and their properties, and thus
applications, depend both on the strength and dynamics of the non-covalent bonds and on …

Spin-vibronic mechanism for intersystem crossing

TJ Penfold, E Gindensperger, C Daniel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intersystem crossing (ISC), formally forbidden within nonrelativistic quantum theory, is the
mechanism by which a molecule changes its spin state. It plays an important role in the …

Revising complex supramolecular polymerization under kinetic and thermodynamic control

J Matern, Y Dorca, L Sánchez… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pathway complexity, hierarchical organization, out of equilibrium, and metastable or
kinetically trapped species are common terms widely used in recent, high‐quality …

Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

Toward the design and construction of supramolecular functional molecular materials based on metal–metal interactions

MHY Chan, VWW Yam - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular functional materials represent an emerging class of materials that have
been governed by the supramolecular chemistry of self-assembled molecules. Such high …

Supramolecular materials

DB Amabilino, DK Smith, JW Steed - Chemical society reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular material properties depend upon the contacts between and the arrangement of
the component parts, and therefore supramolecular chemistry has developed a highly …

Charge-transfer processes in metal complexes enable luminescence and memory functions

VWW Yam, AKW Chan, EYH Hong - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular transition-metal–ligand complexes are emerging as useful paradigms in materials
science. Transition metal complexes have diverse metal d electron configurations, oxidation …