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

超分子系统--分子聚集体--为材料的设计和开发奠定了基础，这些材料在催化、靶向药物输送、气体储存、化学分离、电光和非线性光学等领域具有广泛的潜在应用。它们还可以作为复杂现象的模型，如自组装和配体-受体结合。该项目的成果将对澳大利亚几个明确的研究重点产生影响，通过博士后研究员和研究生参与这种性质的国际合作，该项目直接有助于培养熟悉澳大利亚国内外最先进的实验设施的毕业生和研究人员。

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.