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Nerea Bilbao1, Iris Destoop2, Steven De Feyter3
1Nanostructured Molecular Systems and Materials Group, Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 20, 2016
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We present an approach that makes use of DNA base pairing to produce hydrogen-bonded macrocycles whose supramolecular structure can be transferred from solution to a solid substrate. A hierarchical assembly process ultimately leads to two-dimensional nanostructured porous networks that are able to host size-complementary guests.
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