Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

Over the last two decades the field of metallosupramolecular self-assembly has emerged as
a promising research area for the development of intricate, three-dimensional structures of …

This tutorial review summarises different aspects of cooperativity in supramolecular
complexes. We propose a systematic categorisation of cooperativity into cooperative …

Supramolecular synthesis is a powerful strategy for assembling complex molecules, but to
do this by targeted design is challenging. This is because multicomponent assembly …

Conspectus This Account is about templates as construction tools: molecules for making
molecules. A template organizes the reactants and provides information to promote …

Since the first synthesis of cryptands and cavitands, molecular cages defined as hollow
structures enclosing a three-dimensional cavity have experienced a large development in …

Molecular knots are often prepared using metal helicates to cross the strands. We found that
coordinatively mismatching oligodentate ligands and metal ions provides a more effective …

Cyclic polymers with a ring-like topology and no chain ends are a unique class of
macromolecules. In the past several decades, significant advances have been made to …

The self‐assembly into supramolecular polymers is a process driven by reversible non‐
covalent interactions between monomers, and gives access to materials applications …

Electronic communication between concentric macrocycles with wave functions that extend
around their circumferences can lead to remarkable behavior, as illustrated by multiwalled …