Life is a non‐equilibrium state of matter maintained at the expense of energy. Nature uses
predominantly chemical energy stored in thermodynamically activated, but kinetically stable …

The field of supramolecular chemistry has been flourishing since J.-M. Lehn, DJ Cram, and
CJ Pedersen were awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. By Prof. Lehn's definition, 1 …

As representative soft materials with widespread applications, gels with various functions
have been developed. However, traditional gels are vulnerable to stress-induced formation …

New materials that have the ability to reversibly adapt to their environment and possess a
wide range of responses ranging from self-healing to mechanical work are continually …

Dynamic covalent chemistry relates to chemical reactions carried out reversibly under
conditions of equilibrium control. The reversible nature of the reactions introduces the …

Fluorescence has been observed directly across the band gap of semiconducting carbon
nanotubes. We obtained individual nanotubes, each encased in a cylindrical micelle, by …

Dynamic combinatorial chemistry is defined as combinatorial chemistry under
thermodynamic control; that is, in a dynamic combinatorial library (DCL), all constituents are …

The term “organocatalysis” describes the acceleration of chemical reactions through the
addition of a substoichiometric quantity of an organic compound. The interest in this field has …

Guanine-rich DNA sequences have the propensity to adopt four-stranded tetrahelical G-
quadruplex (G4) structures that are overrepresented in gene promoters. The structural …

Reversible covalent bond formation under thermodynamic control adds reactivity to self-
assembled supramolecular systems, and is therefore an ideal tool to assess complexity of …