Self-assembly of colloidal particles into ordered superstructures enables the development of
novel advanced materials for diverse applications such as photonics, electronics, sensing …

Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

All chemists are familiar with the idea that, at equilibrium steady state, the relative
concentrations of species present in a system are predicted by the corresponding …

Supramolecular gels are formed by the self-assembly of small molecules under the
influence of various non-covalent interactions. As the interactions are individually weak and …

Stimuli-responsive behaviour is key to the design of smart materials, surfaces, nano-systems
and effector molecules, allowing their application as switchable catalysts, molecular …

DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a powerful tool to precisely design and control
molecular circuits, machines and nanostructures. A major goal in this field is to build devices …

Coulombic interactions can be used to assemble charged nanoparticles into higher-order
structures, but the process requires oppositely charged partners that are similarly sized. The …

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 …

Over the last two decades ratchet mechanisms have transformed the understanding and
design of stochastic molecular systems—biological, chemical and physical—in a move away …

Biology operates through autonomous chemically fuelled molecular machinery, including
rotary motors such as adenosine triphosphate synthase and the bacterial flagellar motor …