Confining molecules can fundamentally change their chemical and physical properties.
Confinement effects are considered instrumental at various stages of the origins of life, and …

Incorporating molecular photoswitches into various materials provides unique opportunities
for controlling their properties and functions with high spatiotemporal resolution using …

Supramolecular polymerization can be controlled in space and time by chemical fuels. A
nonassembled monomer is activated by the fuel and subsequently self-assembles into a …

Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

Swarms, which stem from collective behaviors among individual elements, are commonly
seen in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists have been attempting to understand the …

Synthetic membranes featuring confined nanostructures have emerged as a prominent
category of leading materials that can selectively separate target ions from complex water …

The capacity to respond or adapt to environmental changes is an intrinsic property of living
systems that comprise highly-connected subcomponents communicating through chemical …

Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for develo** …

Light offers unique opportunities for controlling the activity of materials and biosystems with
high spatiotemporal resolution. Molecular photoswitches are chromophores that undergo …