The flexibility of biomolecules enables them to adapt and transform as a result of signals
received from the external environment, expressing different functions in different contexts …

In 1893, Alfred Werner described the structure of octahedral transition metal complexes and
provided the basis for assigning coordination number and oxidation state to what were then …

Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the past few decades has led to the
synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with …

The synthesis of hollow opening polyhedral cages has always been an attractive but
challenging goal, especially with regard to inorganic polyhedral cages. Herein, we present a …

Drawing inspiration from the self-assembly of hollow spherical virus capsids and protein
cages found in nature, a family of roughly spherical coordination polyhedra with general …

Whereas single-crystal X-ray crystallography has represented an active area of research
since shortly after the discovery of X-rays, the subjects of crystal design and crystal …

Recently, porous organic cage crystals have become a real alternative to extended
framework materials with high specific surface areas in the desolvated state. Although major …

Self-assembly is a powerful technique for the bottom-up construction of discrete, well-
defined nanoscale structures. Large multicomponent systems (with more than 50 …

In recent past years, investigation of hierarchical self-assembly for constructing artificial
functional materials has attracted considerable attention. Discrete metallacycles based on …

We provide a summary of our results in three-dimensional, coordination-driven self-
assembly based on the directional-bonding methodology, in which the stoichiometric mixing …