Supramolecular polymers (SPs) have attracted broad interest because of their intriguing
features and functions. Host–guest interactions often impart tunable physicochemical …

Cucurbit [n] uril (CB [n]) macrocycles (especially CB [5] to CB [8]) have shown exceptional
attributes since their discovery in 2000. Their stability, water solubility, responsiveness to …

Macrocyclic hosts, such as cyclodextrins, calixarenes, cucurbiturils, and pillararenes, exhibit
unparalleled advantages in disease diagnosis and therapy over the past years by fully …

Molecular conjugation refers to methods used in biomedicine, advanced materials and
nanotechnology to link two partners—from small molecules to large and sometimes …

Carriers for intracellular delivery are required to overcome limitations of therapeutic agents
such as low specificity, systemic toxicity, high clearance rate, and low therapeutic index …

As a novel family of macrocyclic molecules, cucurbit [n] urils (CB [n] s) have emerged as
promising building blocks of supramolecular nano drug delivery systems (SNDDS) in recent …

Inflammation is one of the most common pathological processes involved in numerous
diseases. Thus, bioimaging of inflammation is of great significance for the diagnosis and …

Surface functionalization of nanoparticles (NPs) is of pivotal importance in nanomedicine.
However, current strategies often require covalent conjugation that involves laborious …

Over the last decades, the global life expectancy of the population has increased, and so,
consequently, has the risk of cancer development. Despite the improvement in cancer …

Covalently self-assembled polymer nanocapsules (NCs) based on cucurbit [6] uril have
been previously prepared and their applications in payload delivery and bioimaging have …