Cooperative phenomena are common processes involved in the hierarchical self-assembly
of multiple systems in nature, such as the tobacco mosaic virus and a cell's cytoskeleton …

1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

Self-assembly provides an attractive route to functional organic materials, with properties
and hence performance depending sensitively on the organization of the molecular building …

Organic materials naturally lend themselves to the crafting of structure and function using the
strategies of self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry employed so effectively by …

Chirality in nanoscience may offer new opportunities for applications beyond the traditional
fields of chirality, such as the asymmetric catalysts in the molecular world and the chiral …

With the introduction of π-conjugated systems in electronic devices and the dream to arrive
at molecular electronics based on these systems, the detailed understanding of the …

It is likely that nanofabrication will underpin many technologies in the 21st century. Synthetic
chemistry is a powerful approach to generate molecular structures that are capable of …

To study the supramolecular polymerisation mechanisms of a self‐assembling system,
concentration‐and temperature‐dependent measurements can both be used to probe the …

Hierarchical self-assembly offers a powerful strategy for producing molecular
nanostructures. Although widely used, the mechanistic details of self-assembly processes …

Abstract 2D organic semiconductor crystals are emerging as a fascinating platform with
regard to their applications in organic field‐effect transistors (OFETs), attributed to their …