Northwestern University

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

University of California

Seoul National University

UChicago Argonne, LLC

Innotune LLC

James Fraser Stoddart

Zhichang Liu

Siva Krishna Mohan Nalluri

Hasmukh A Patel

Junling Sun

Marco Frasconi

Karel J Hartlieb

Daniel Patrick Ferris

James M Holcroft

Indranil Roy

Wenqi Liu

Omar M Yaghi

James R Heath

Omar K Farha

Charles Patrick Collier

Eric C Wong

Nicolaas Vermeulen

Jonathan Christopher Barnes

Dong J Kim

Karl A Hujsak

Ognjen Miljanic

Nak Cheon Jeong

Jang Wook Choi

Jeremiah J Gassensmith

Roger Bruce Pettman

Michal Jurícek

Qiaowei Li

Chenfeng Ke

Yassine Beldjoudi

Minh T Nguyen

Gunter Mattersteig

Francisco M Raymo

Qing-Hui Guo

Yuping Wang

Dengke Shen

Amine Garci

Aleksandrs Prokofjevs

Dong-Joo Yoo

Magdalena Owczarek

Dravid P Vinayak

Edward J Dale

Daniel Seungbum Hong

Nathan Strutt

Severin T Schneebeli

Xisen Hou

Wenyu Zhang

Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a water-soluble host-guest complex formed from a host receptor and a guest photosensitizer for the photoprotection of the photosensitizer. Also disclosed are methods of using the composition for generating reactive oxygen species, inhibiting the proliferation or killing of a cell, treating a subject with a cell proliferative disease or disorder.

Supramolecular photoprotection of a photosensitizer

Disclosed herein is a tricyclic octacationic cyclophane and complexes comprising the tricyclic octacationic cyclophane and a perylene diimide dye complexed therein and methods of using and making the cyclophane and complexes.

Tricyclic octacationic cyclophane and its use in complexation with perlene diimide dyes

An organic counteranion co-assembly strategy is employed to prepare a hybrid molecular framework. The hybrid molecular framework comprises an ordered arrangement of cyclodextrin (CD), metal cations, and organic anions.

Organic counteranion co-assembly strategy for the formation of cyclodextrin-containing hybrid frameworks

Disclosed herein are receptor-substrate complexes comprising an octacationic tricyclic cyclophane and a pyrrole dye complexed therein and methods of using and making the same.

Cyclophane-sustained high performance porphyrins

Disclosed herein are rechargeable aluminum organic batteries and active materials used therein. The cathodic materials used herein comprise a macrocycle comprising a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrenequinone unit and a graphite flake.

Rechargeable aluminum organic batteries

Disclosed herein are methods for live-cell imaging, compositions for performing the live cell imaging, and methods for making the composition. The method may comprise contacting a cell with an effective amount of a catenane, irradiating the cell, and detecting exciplex emission from the catenane within the cell. The catenane may comprise two mechanically interlocked macrocycles, each of the two macrocycles comprise an aromatic fluorophore subunit, and the aromatic fluorophores are arranged in a face-to-face [π . . . π] stack allowing for the exciplex emission.

Mechanical-bond-induced exciplex fluorescence

Provided herein are rigid macrocycles comprising a poly(peri-naphthalene) diimide (PPNDI) submit and a second diimide subunit having both high photoluminescent and electron accumulation activities. Also provided herein are methods of preparation of the rigid macrocycles and methods of using the same.

Rigid chiral photoluminescent isosceles triangular materials

Described herein are cyclophanes, compositions, and methods for live cell imaging. The cyclophanes comprise an ordered, cyclic arrangement of a chromophore, a first linker unit, a molecular strut, and a second linker unit. The compositions are capable of being taking up by cells and resist photobleaching under live-cell imaging conditions.

Cyclophanes for live-cell imaging

Disclosed herein are lithiated cyclodextrin metal organic frameworks and method of making and using the same. A metal organic framework comprising a coordinated network of repeating units extending in three dimensions, wherein the repeating unit comprises a cyclodextrin, a first coordinating metal cation, and a second coordinating metal cation.

Lithiated cyclodextrin metal organic frameworks and methods of making and using the same

Disclosed herein are compositions, supramolecular assemblies, crystalline compositions, and methods of making and using the same. The composition comprises an organic ion and a counterion, wherein the organic ion comprises a molecular hub and arms extending therefrom and wherein the organic ion is capable of adopting a tripodal conformation.

Hierarchical nanoporous diamondoid superstructure

Cationic radial catenane comprising a central cationic ring and two or more radial cationic rings mechanically interlocked central cationic ring and methods for making the same are disclosed herein.

Densely charged catenanes

Disclosed herein are crystalline compositions comprising tessellated rigid triangular macrocycles in a two-dimensional plane and methods of making the same.

Supramolecular tessellation of rigid triangular macrocycles

Fluorescent dyes, ink compositions comprising the dyes, methods and devices for printing the ink compositions, images printed using the ink compositions and methods for authenticating the printed images are provided. The fluorescent dyes are heterorotaxanes that include large macrocyclic rings around fluorophores and are capable of emitting solid-state fluorescence. When the heterorotaxanes are combined with encapsulating agents and competitive binding agents in aqueous solution, the resulting ink composition exhibits a complex, dynamic equilibrium that provides a tunable fluorescence emission spectrum with a non-linear response to the dye concentration.

Supramolecular encrypted fluorescent security ink compositions

Described herein are double-strand chain compositions suitable for use in the preparation of proton conductive membranes. The double-strand chains comprise a plurality of constitutional units joined to each other through two atoms on one side of the constitutional unit and two atoms on the other side of the constitutional unit. Constitutional units comprise a dibenzo-crown ether macrocycle fused with a bicyclic aliphatic linker. Polymers, membranes, and fuel cells comprising the double-strand chain are also described herein.

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