Matthew O. Blunt

TL;DR: Vernier complexes can solve the problem of covalent synthesis of challenging targets by establishing Vernier templating as a powerful new strategy for the synthesis of large monodisperse macromolecules.

TL;DR: A molecular network that exhibits critical correlations in the spatial order that is characteristic of a random, entropically stabilized, rhombus tiling is described and a topological defect can propagate through the network, giving rise to a local reordering of molecular tiles and thus to transitions between quasi-degenerate local minima of a complex energy landscape.

TL;DR: A two-dimensional nanoporous covalent organic framework can be prepared on a Au(111) substrate with near complete surface coverage and can be used to control the organisation of a sublimed layer of C(60).

TL;DR: Using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) to investigate a structural phase transition between a densely packed and a porous phase of an alkylated dehydrobenzo[12]annulene (DBA) derivative physisorbed at a solvent-graphite interface demonstrates the power of using structural phase transitions to study the thermodynamics of these systems.

TL;DR: The present results provide important impetus for the development of two-dimensional crystal engineering and may afford opportunities for the utilization of chiral nanowells in chiral recognition processes, as nanoreactors and as data storage systems.