Chemotherapy is currently one of the most effective ways to treat cancer. However,
traditional chemotherapy faces several obstacles to clinical trials, such as poor …

Shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels are being investigated in various biomedical
applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting. Such hydrogels …

The development of supramolecular chemistry dates back to 1987 when Lehn, Cram, and
Pedersen won the Nobel Prize on account of their leading discoveries in the host–guest …

The supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit [n] urils (CB n) has been rapidly developing to
encompass diverse medicinal applications, including drug formulation and delivery …

Platinum-based anticancer drugs occupy a crucial role in the treatment of various malignant
tumours. However, the efficacy and applicability of platinum drugs are heavily restricted by …

Platinum drugs have been a mainstay of cancer chemotherapy since the introduction of
cisplatin in the 1970s. Since then, carboplatin and oxaliplatin have been approved world …

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the construction of functional supramolecular
nanosystems for applications in catalysis, energy conversion, sensing and biomedicine. The …

The macrocycle families: cucurbit [n] urils, n-cyclodextrins, calix [n] arenes, and pillar [n]
arenes (where n represents the number of subunits in each homologue) have shown …

Abstract Cucurbit [7] uril (CB [7]) and cucurbit [8] uril (CB [8]) are two key members of the
cucurbit [n] uril (CB [n]) family of macrocycles. Because of the good water solubility of CB [7] …

The year 2015 marks the 50th anniversary since the discovery of the anticancer potential of
cisplatin and it remains just as useful now as it did back then, especially for the treatment of …