The electrochemical reduction of tert-butylcalix[8]arene-C(60) particle films was studied using the scanning electrochemical microscope combined with a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for several electrolytes in MeCN. Complexation of the fullerene within the film results in a negative shift of the peak potential of the first cathodic wave by about 400 mV compared to the reduction of a pure C(...

We report the first synthesis of a dendritic multicalixarene, featuring twenty-one calixarene units, which when adsorbed onto mica, forms regular assemblies which can then further aggregate to form larger clusters.

The self-assembly properties of a non-polar calixarene have been investigated at the air-water interface, in water and in the solid state showing that this molecule behaves as an amphiphilic molecule.

A calixarene-based supramolecular hydrogel with a porous network structure was successfully constructed via a hierarchical induced assembly strategy, showing reversible or irreversible gelation behaviors in response to several external stimuli including thermal, redox and ionic strength.

The formation and structural analysis of porous hexanuclear ring-like cluster complexes built from two different kind calixarene ligands is presented, together with their stability vapor solvent sorption properties.