Conspectus In many origin-of-life scenarios, inorganic materials, such as FeS or mineral
clays, play an important role owing to their ability to concentrate and select small organic …

In this review we describe the use of monolayer protected gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) for
chemosensing applications. The attention is focused on a special subclass of Au NPs …

Provides deep insight into the concepts and recent developments in the area of
supramolecular chemistry in water Written by experts in their respective field, this …

Coassembly of peptides and polysaccharides can give rise to the formation of
nanostructures with tunable morphologies. We show that in situ enzymatic exchange of a …

Self-assembly of a specific member of a dynamic combinatorial library (DCL) may lead to
self-replication of this molecule. However, if the concentration of the potential replicator in …

Templated assembly of small molecules into nano-structural architectures has been used
extensively by nature throughout its evolution. These systems have also been studied in …

Current directions and emerging possibilities under investigation for the integration of
synthetic and semi-synthetic multivalent architectures with biology are discussed. Attention …

The ability to design reaction networks with high, but addressable complexity is a necessary
prerequisite to make advanced functional chemical systems. Dynamic combinatorial …

The creation of functions at the molecular level is one of the main goal of supramolecular
chemistry [1]. In this respect,“coordinatively unsaturated” metal complexes of macrocyclic …

The structures and physicochemical properties of surface-stabilizing molecules play a
critical role in defining the properties, interactions, and functionality of hybrid nanomaterials …