The new book Handbook of Macrocyclic Supramolecular Assembly edited by Professor Liu Yu, Chen Yong and Zhang Hengyi from the School of Chemistry of Nankai University was recently published by Springer Nature, an authoritative international academic journal. With an introduction of recent research results in macrocyclic supramolecular chemistry, the book aims to provide educators, scientists, graduates and undergraduates with a relatively complete set of references to deeply understand this field. The book also serves as a present to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the School of Chemistry.

Divided into two volumes and 59 chapters with a total of 550,000 words, the whole book systematically introduces the construction and structure of macrocyclic supramolecular assembly, methods and technologies as well as application of supramolecular assembly, also covering supramolecular chemistry, biochemistry, functional materials and nanotechnology based on macrocycles.

The book has been edited and written since November 2017 by over 50 experts and scholars at home and abroad and was published in this August. It is said that the emerging molecular chemistry has drawn extensive attention from the scientific community and developed rapidly since 1987, when the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to C.J Pedersen, J.M Lehn, and D.J Cram in recognition of their pioneering contributions to supramolecular chemistry. In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry once again commended Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, who specialized in supramolecular chemistry, acknowledging their devotions to artificial molecular machines. In times of such development of supramolecular chemistry, thanks to the relentless efforts made by many scientific researchers in the frontier of macrocyclic supramolecular chemistry, supramolecular assembly based on macrocyclic compounds is particularly impressive.

(Reported by Fang Lan, Translated by Cenying Wen, Edited by Davide Francolino and JianjingYun)