Crowns, cages and cavities: Insights into host-guest chemistry from experimental charge density analysis of supramolecular crystals

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Supramolecular systems - molecular aggregates - underpin the design and development of materials for a vast number of potential applications, in areas as diverse as catalysis, targeted drug delivery, gas storage, chemical separation, electro-optics and nonlinear optics. They also serve as models for complex phenomena such as self-assembly and ligand-receptor binding. Outcomes will impact on several of the nation's articulated research priorities and, through involvement of postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students in an international collaboration of this nature, the project contributes directly to producing graduates and researchers familiar with state-of-the-art experimental facilities, both within Australia and overseas.