Congratulations to Purse Lab undergraduates Sara Journey, Kristine Teppang, Cesar Garcia, and Shaylyn Brim for leading a study on mechanically induced molecular capsule assembly, showing that their solid state synthesis methods enable the entrapment of guest molecules that cannot be encapsulated using traditional solvent-mediated methods.The authors’ discoveries show that there are new opportunities to create organized molecular assemblies entirely in the solid state. Potential applications include drug formulation and materials science. Read the details here, in Chemical Science.
