The way forward for a field in its infancy is to focus on complexity and integrated systems that may lead to emergent phenomena, suggests J. Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University.
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Stoddart, J. Thither supramolecular chemistry?. Nature Chem 1, 14–15 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.142
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