Intramolecular bonding as a design strategy for robust intermolecular binding of oligomers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Number 19, May 2026.
ImportanceMolecular recognition processes are omnipresent to implement a function. Current materials design efforts focused on energetics as the primary factor for tuning bonding are not optimal because they neglect the role of entropic forces, which are often…