Prof. Yu Liu's group study molecular recognition and the molecular assembly of synthetic macrocyclic receptors. The focus is the non-covalent interactions between hosts crown ethers, cyclodextrins, calixarenes, cucurbiturils and guests. They have constructed several novel supramolecular assemblies and functional supramolecular systems, which can be applied in drug delivery, catalysis, enzyme mimics. For more details, see

http://supram.nankai.edu.cn/