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

Recent years have witnessed tremendous progress and developments of the
photoswitchable spiropyran-based polymers, owing to distinctive and particular …

Compartmentalization of the aqueous space within a cell is necessary for life. In similar
fashion to the nanometer-scale compartments in living systems, synthetic water-soluble …

Data‐driven science is heralded as a new paradigm in materials science. In this field, data is
the new resource, and knowledge is extracted from materials datasets that are too big or …

Spiropyrans have played a pivotal role in the emergence of the field of chromism following
their discovery in the early 20th century, with almost ubiquitous use in materials applications …

The development of an integrated material system capable of effectively organizing and
combining multisource information, such as dynamic pigmentary, structural, and fluorescent …

Self-assembled discrete molecular architectures that show selective molecular recognition
within their internal cavities are highly desirable. Such hosts often show guest recognition …

Controlling the number of molecular switches and their relative positioning within porous
materials is critical to their functionality and properties. The proximity of many molecular …

The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Light is a nearly ideal stimulus for molecular systems. It delivers information encoded in the
form of wavelengths and their intensities with high precision in space and time. Light is a …