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SUBMITTER: Tian J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4268711 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20141203
Self-assembly has emerged as a powerful approach to generating complex supramolecular architectures. Despite there being many crystalline frameworks reported in the solid state, the construction of highly soluble periodic supramolecular networks in a three-dimensional space is still a challenge. Here we demonstrate that the encapsulation motif, which involves the dimerization of two aromatic units within cucurbit[8]uril, can be used to direct the co-assembly of a tetratopic molecular block and c ...[more]