The story of the little blue box: a tribute to Siegfried Hünig

XY Chen, H Chen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The tetracationic cyclophane, cyclobis (paraquat‐p‐phenylene), also known as the little blue
box, constitutes a modular receptor that has facilitated the discovery of many host–guest …

Radical-pairing-induced molecular assembly and motion

K Cai, L Zhang, RD Astumian, JF Stoddart - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Radical-pairing interactions between conjugated organic π-radicals are relative newcomers
to the inventory of molecular recognition motifs explored in supramolecular chemistry. The …

Rotaxane-branched dendrimers with enhanced photosensitization

WJ Li, Z Hu, L Xu, XQ Wang, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the past few decades, fabrication of functional rotaxane-branched dendrimers has
become one of the most attractive yet challenging topics within supramolecular chemistry …

Daisy chain architectures: from discrete molecular entities to polymer materials

E Moulin, CC Carmona-Vargas… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Daisy chain architectures, made by the self-complementary threading of an axle covalently
linked to a macrocycle, represent a particularly intriguing family of supramolecular and …

Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices

T Bouwens, TMA Bakker, K Zhu, J Hasenack… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular photoelectrochemical devices are hampered by electron–hole recombination
after photoinduced electron transfer, causing losses in power conversion efficiency. Inspired …

Supramolecular polymers: Recent advances based on the types of underlying interactions

HQ Peng, W Zhu, WJ Guo, Q Li, S Ma, C Bucher… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Supramolecular polymers are, in broad brushstrokes, self-assembled structures built up from
small building blocks via the use of noncovalent interactions. In favorable cases …

Synthesis and Near-Infrared photothermal conversion of discrete supramolecular topologies featuring Half-Sandwich [Cp* Rh] units

X Gao, Z Cui, YR Shen, D Liu, YJ Lin… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although a large number of novel supramolecular topologies featuring half-sandwich [Cp*
Rh] units have been reported, investigations into the properties of these architectures are …

Artificial molecular pumps

L Zhang, H Wu, X Li, H Chen, RD Astumian… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Reflecting on recent progress in bottom-up engineering focused on creating the smallest
devices capable of controlling nanoscale motion, artificial molecular pumps (AMPs) are …

Fluorescence quenching by redox molecular pumping

X Li, AHG David, L Zhang, B Song, Y Jiao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Artificial molecular pumps (AMPs), inspired by the active cellular transport exhibited in
biological systems, enable cargoes to undergo unidirectional motion, courtesy of molecular …

Mechanically interlocked [an] daisy chain networks

Y Wang, Z Zhang, H Zhang, J Zhao, G Liu, R Bai, Y Liu… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Mechanically interlocked polymers (MIPs) are capable of synchronously directing force and
motion empowered by collective mechanical bonds, thus constituting a versatile platform for …