Innovative design of smart organic materials is of great importance for the advancement of
modern technology. Macrocycle hosts, possessing cyclic skeletons, intrinsic cavities, and …

Hydrocarbon separation is an important process in the field of petrochemical industry, which
provides a variety of raw materials for industrial production and a strong support for the …

Pillar [n] arenes, which were first reported by our group in 2008, are a new type of pillar-
shaped host molecule in host–guest chemistry with versatile and unique host–guest …

Porous organic molecular materials are a subclass of porous solids that are defined by their
modular, molecular structures, and the absence of extended covalent or coordination …

Conspectus Porous materials with high surface areas have drawn more and more attention
in recent years because of their wide applications in physical adsorption and energy …

The chemical industry and the chemical processes underscoring it are under intense
scrutiny as the demands for the transition to more sustainable and environmentally friendly …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly tunable materials with potential for use as
porous media in non-thermal adsorption or membrane-based separations. However, many …

Vapochromic materials, which undergo colour and/or emission changes upon exposure to
certain vapours or gases, have received increasing attention recently because of their wide …

Pillararene/calixarene-based functional materials have garnered significant attention for
their unique topological/chemical structures and physicochemical properties, and their …