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Postdoctoral Researcher Wenqi (Vince) Liu′s article Cyclophane-Sustained Ultrastable Porphyrins is featured on the cover of JACS Issue 19. The article reports that the encapsulation of free-base and zinc porphyrins by a tricyclic cyclophane receptor with subnanomolar binding affinities in water. The high affinities are sustained by the hydrophobic effect and multiple [CH···π] interactions covering the large

Dr Nancy McGuire writes in a JACS Spotlight that the fluorescent tagging of molecules have become mainstays for imaging biological systems. Watching where these tags attach and what conditions make them light up provides insights into cellular structures and processes. So-called excimers and exciplexes, aggregates of tagging molecules that emit brief bursts of low-energy light, have

We hunt in packs at NU for the biggest prey in the jungle of the chemical and materials sciences. The intimate collaboration between Postdoctoral Fellow Penghao Li and Zhijie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Omar Farha’s Group, on ultraporous MOFs has led to an article being published in the April issue of Science. See Publication #1187