Exploration of Supramolecular Synthons and Molecular Recognition Starting from Macroscopic Measurements of Crystal Dimensions

摘要

The complete control over the fabrication of crystalline materials is focused nowadays on a bottom-up philosophy that ideally starts with the design and synthesis of good building blocks for assembling a functional material, proceeds with the prediction of how the molecular units will self-assemble in the crystal, deals with the nucleation of the correct crystal form, continues with the growth of final materials with a predetermined shape, and ultimately relates macroscopic properties to the geometry and strength of the intermolecular interactions.