The design of structures of organic nanoporous crystals has been hampered by the difficulty of placing functional moieties in a predictive manner. A modular strategy based on prefabricated organic nanocages having directional chiral interactions that self-assemble into the predicted crystals circumvents this problem.
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McKeown, N. Predictable porosity. Nature Mater 10, 563–564 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3073
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