Precise control over out-of-equilibrium states is key to creating smart materials. Here, we report a synthetic supramolecular polymer system that forms distinct out-of-equilibrium structures of different dimensionalities depending on light intensity. Real-time high-speed AFM imaging revealed the underlying mechanisms, including light-driven facet-selective polymorphic transformation and Ostwald ripening. This study offers a general design principle for adaptive materials whose structures and functions are finely tuned by the amount of energy input.

Chemical kinetics course Class 1: Historical introduction Class 2: 0-2nd order, equilibrium (analytical) Class 3: Reactions in series/parallel, Michaelis-Men...

vMASC Early-Career Seminars: Call for Abstracts The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (vMASC) seminar series are inviting abstracts from all early-career …

An abiotic information ratchet mechanism increases selectivity for the correct DNA duplex from 2:1 at equilibrium to 6:1 under energy-dissipating conditions.

SPs and gels emerged as modular platforms for asymmetric catalysis. This review ranks literature reports according to the achiral or chiral nature of the monomers bearing the catalytic site. New para...

Inspired by the extraordinary attributes displayed by nanotubes in Nature, the creation of self-assembled nano-sized hollow tubes is an area of significant and growing interest given its potential app...

This study explores microscopic reversibility to understand the operation of molecular devices.

The direct incorporation of borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) subunits into the structural backbone of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) gives facile access to porous photosensitizers but is still a chal...

The ambition to relate intrinsic features of chemical data to the underlying chemical reaction networks (CRNs) is not new, but has experienced only modest success. This may partly be attributed to a ...

If we aim to develop efficient synthetic models of protein receptors and enzymes, we must understand the relationships of intra- and intermolecular interactions between hosts and guests and how they m...