Fullerene chemistry encompasses the investigation of closed-cage carbon structures and their extraordinary electronic, optical, and chemical properties. A particularly exciting facet of this field is ...

Scientists at Hiroshima University developed new porous crystals that have no pores. But access to guests activates the latent pores, which encapsulate guests inside the activated pores. Sometimes the ...

Template-assisted synthesis dramatically improves the yield of functionalized oligophenylene cages, report researchers from Japan. By using covalent templates to guide a six-fold Suzuki–Miyaura ...

Researchers efficiently synthesize functionalized oligophenylene cages using covalent templates and cooperative intermolecular coupling. (Nanowerk News) Template-assisted synthesis dramatically ...

Water-assembled capsules act as sophisticated nanotools, inducing and tuning chirality in metal dyes without chemical changes, with precise thermal control and adaptability. (Nanowerk News) In nature, ...