Buckyball-based spherical display of crown ethers for de novo custom design of ion transport selectivity

• Main Authors: Li, Ning, Chen, Feng, Shen, Jie, Zhang, Hao, Wang, Tianxiang, Ye, Ruijuan, Li, Tianhu, Loh, Teck-Peng, Yang, Yi Yan, Zeng, Huaqiang
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Crown Ether; Fullerene Derivative
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171492
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Searching for membrane-active synthetic analogues that are structurally simple yet functionally comparable to natural channel proteins has been of central research interest in the past four decades, yet custom design of the ion transport selectivity still remains a grand challenge. Here we report on...