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Supramolecular chemistry

Form leading to function

In a Dutch city famous for the treaty that led to the creation of the European Union, delegates gathered at a conference to discuss recent advances in the chemistry of macrocyclic and supramolecular systems.

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Figure 1: Collapse and expansion of single polymer chains into nanoparticles.
Figure 2: Formation of hierarchical hydrogels through the orthogonal self-assembly of both hydrogelators and surfactants.

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Scherman, O. Form leading to function. Nature Chem 1, 524–525 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.387

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