Emergent Materials by Supramolecular Chemistry
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 5599
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supramolecular chemistry; organic synthesis; heterocycles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Supramolecular chemistry has long since evolved from its original definition more than 30 years ago and has generated new areas of chemistry that have continously been in development. New architectures have been initially created only to express the beauty of chemical diversity. Later, these supramolecular assemblies have steadily found new applications as sensors, receptors, molecular machines, catalysts, smart materials, dynamic biomaterials, etc.
Looking back to the progress of supramolecular chemistry and related materials chemistry fields, it is very likely that supramolecular materials are going to dominate in the future decades. This is because the principles used for their construction operate with simple, yet complex concepts and use easily renewable materials. Moreover, researchers can turn back to small, diverse, and cheap building blocks that are able to yield stable, elaborated structures with unexpected properties and functions.
The synthetic approaches of such supramolecular materials have concomitantly emerged from the desired applications and represent the main interest of many research groups. Structural analysis and investigation methods aimed to unveil a variety of properties have also become available during the past decades and are now commonly used for materials characterisation.
The field of supramolecular materials is coming to its maturity, and we are witnessing its intersection with numerous areas of chemistry, physics, biology and medicine.
We invite all of you working in supramolecular and related fields to share the ultimate experiences that reinforce the idea of functional materials stabilised by non-covalent interactions which can lead to future and immediate innovative applications.
Dr. Mihaela Matache
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Niculina D. Hădade
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-covalent interractions
- supramolecular functional (bio)materials
- synthesis of functional supramolecules
- switches
- dynamic materials
- supramolecular assembly
- supramolecular (bio)sensors
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