The nature of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) has continued to encourage
researchers to design and construct a variety of high-performance materials. Introducing …

Dendrimers Designed for Functions: From Physical, Photophysical, and Supramolecular
Properties to Applications in Sensing, Catalysis, Molecular Electronics, Photonics, and …

1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

Supramolecular polymers, polymeric systems beyond the molecule, have attracted more
and more attention from scientists due to their applications in various fields, including stimuli …

In the past three decades, chemistry has changed from focusing on a single molecule to
molecular assemblies. Through the discovery of macrocycles, the chemistry of molecular …

Aiming at the construction of novel soft actuators through the amplified motions of molecular
machines at the nanoscale, the design and synthesis of a new family of photoresponsive …

Conspectus During recent decades, the blossoming of the field of mechanically interlocked
molecules (MIMs), ie, molecules containing mechanical or topological bonds such as …

The imine bond–formed by the reversible condensation of an amine and an aldehyde–and
its applications as a dynamic covalent bond in the template-directed synthesis of molecular …

Mechanically bonded macromolecules constitute a class of challenging synthetic targets in
polymer science. The controllable intramolecular motions of mechanical bonds, in …

In this critical review, we discuss switching of the light-powered bistable rotaxanes and
catenanes and highlight the practical applications of some of these systems. Photoactive …