Publications related to Host–guest chemistry

Palladium-based supramolecular assemblies: from complex structures to water-soluble anion-receptors

The combination of palladium salts and bipyridyl ligands can lead to the formation of a large variety of coordination complexes, with different shapes and sizes, displaying a very versatile host-guest chemistry. Increasing their structural complexity remai ...

EPFL2024

Nanogels with Metal‐Organic Cages as Functional Crosslinks

Kay Severin, Chaolei Hu

A dinuclear metal-organic cage with four acrylate side chains was prepared by self-assembly. Precipitation polymerization of the cage with N-isopropylacrylamide yielded a thermoresponsive nanogel. The host properties of the cage were retained within the ge ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Interfacial engineering through lead binding using crown ethers in perovskite solar cells

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Jovana Milic, Yeonju Kim, Jiyoun Seo

In the domain of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the imperative to reconcile impressive photovoltaic performance with lead-related issue and environmental stability has driven innovative solutions. This study pioneers an approach that not only rectifies lea ...

Elsevier2024

Supramolecular Polymer Brushes

Friederike Katharina Metze

Thin polymer coatings present a method to modify the surface properties of underlying substrates. Polymer-coated surfaces have been used as anticorrosive materials, surfaces with special wetting properties, antifriction materials, and as materials for biom ...

EPFL2023

Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantioenriched Zigzag-Type Molecular Belts by Kinetic Resolution and Subsequent Transformations

Jieping Zhu, Shuo Tong

Asymmetric synthesis of enantioenriched zigzag-type molecular belts featuring copper/H8-binaphthol-catalyzed kinetic resolution of a resorcinarene derivative and subsequent transformations was developed. The acquired rigid and C4-symmetric belt exhibited r ...

2023

Supramolecular Modifications of Semicrystalline Polymers

Michael Alan Giffin

Supramolecular interactions play an important role in defining the structure and the resulting mechanical properties of materials. For instance, interchain hydrogen-bonding in PAs gives them superior strength and stiffness in engineering materials, while t ...

EPFL2023

LiBF4‐Induced Rearrangement and Desymmetrization of a Palladium‐Ligand Assembly

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Sylvain Alexandre Marie Sudan

Thirteen palladium-ligand assemblies with different structures and topologies were investigated for the ability to bind lithium ions. In one case, the addition of LiBF4 resulted in a profound structural rearrangement, converting a dincluclear [Pd2L4]2 comp ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Multimodal host–guest complexation for efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Ursula Röthlisberger, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jovana Milic, Marko Mladenovic, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Hong Zhang, Dan Ren, Zaiwei Wang, Michael Allan Hope, Paramvir Ahlawat, Aditya Mishra, Zhaowen Dong, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Anurag Krishna, Jinming Guo, Olivier Ouellette, Zhiwen Zhou, Tzu-Sen Su

Formamidinium lead iodide perovskites are promising light-harvesting materials, yet stabilizing them under operating conditions without compromising optimal optoelectronic properties remains challenging. We report a multimodal host–guest complexation strat ...

Nature Research2021

Luminescent, porous, metal-organic crystals: Design, synthesis, and applications

Fatmah Ebrahim

The work presented in this thesis is focused on the design and discovery of new luminescent, porous, crystalline materials for targeted applications. In particular, we focus on luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Organic Molecules of Intrinsic ...

EPFL2020

Shape retaining self-healing metal-coordinated hydrogels

Esther Amstad, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet, Raffaele Mezzenga

Metal-coordinated hydrogels are physical hydrogels entirely crosslinked by complexes between ligand decorated polymers and metal ions. The mechanical properties of these hydrogels strongly depend on the density and dynamics of metal-coordinated interaction ...

2021

Enhancing MOF performance through the introduction of polymer guests

Wendy Lee Queen, Jordi Espin Marti, Daniel Teav Sun, Shuliang Yang, Mehrdad Asgari, Li Peng, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve, Anita Justin

In this contribution, recent advances in the construction of MOF-polymer composites and their corresponding applications are briefly reviewed. The appearance of such architectures is becoming prominent in recent literature, due to the fact that the union o ...

2020

Identifying and Tracking Defects in Dynamic Supramolecular Polymers

Michele Ceriotti, Piero Gasparotto

A central paradigm of self-assembly is to create ordered structures starting from molecular monomers that spontaneously recognize and interact with each other via noncovalent interactions. In recent years, great efforts have been directed toward perfecting ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Quantifying Guest-Host Dynamics in Supramolecular Assemblies to Analyze Their Robustness

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Eva Eugene Kurisinkal

The most basic function of synthetic microenvironments for tissue engineering is to act as a physical substrate for cell attachment, migration, and proliferation, similar to the natural cell environment. Functionalization of supramolecular materials with g ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Molecular nanostructures based on polyfunctional clathrochelate complexes

Suzanne Maria Jansze

This thesis describes the design and synthesis of clathrochelate metalloligands for the construction of molecular nanostructures. The low synthetic effort, versatility and stability of the clathrochelate metalloligands makes them particularly suited to the ...

EPFL2019

Composition containing a polymer and an additive

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Daniel Görl

The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer (10) that comprises at least one polymer segment (13) and at least two polymer aggregating segments (11,12) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on a supramolecular interac ...

2019

On the effect of ligand shell heterogeneity on nanoparticle/protein binding thermodynamics

Francesco Stellacci, Ahmet Bekdemir, Suiyang Liao

Nonspecific protein adhesion to nanoparticle (NP) has been proven to have important implications in nanomedicine. However, there are only a few examples of careful studies relating protein binding thermodynamics to NP physicochemical features. In particula ...

2019

Design of Surface-Supported Bio-inspired Networks for CO2 and O2 Activation at Room Temperature

Daniel Eduardo Hurtado Salinas

The structure of a biological system defines its function. Therefore, nature has developed sophisticated systems that catalyze chemical reactions that are vital for life on earth. For instance, the photosynthesis is a biological process that is partially r ...

EPFL2018

High-speed photothermal off-resonance atomic force microscopy reveals assembly routes of centriolar scaffold protein SAS-6

Pierre Gönczy, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Georg Fantner, Niccolo Banterle, Santiago Harald Andany

The self-assembly of protein complexes is at the core of many fundamental biological processes1, ranging from the polymerization of cytoskeletal elements, such as microtubules2, to viral capsid formation and organelle assembly3. To reach a comprehensive un ...

2018

Host-guest chemistry with water-soluble gold nanoparticle supraspheres

Francesco Stellacci, Benjamin Timothée Nicolas Le Ouay

The uptake of molecular guests, a hallmark of the supramolecular chemistry of cages and containers, has yet to be documented for soluble assemblies of metal nanoparticles. Here we demonstrate that gold nanoparticle-based supraspheres serve as a host for th ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Visible light-emitting host-guest electrochemical cells using cyanine dyes

Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany, Jakob Heier, Beat Ruhstaller, Lei Wang, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) can be fabricated as a single emissive organic/salt layer sandwiched between two electrodes, offering cost-effective next generation signage and lighting applications. Cyanine dyes are especially attractive to ex ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017