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ArticleNature nanotechnology2018

Synthetic oligorotaxanes exert high forces when folding under mechanical load.

Damien Sluysmans, Sandrine Hubert, Carson J Bruns, Zhixue Zhu, J Fraser Stoddart, Anne-Sophie Duwez

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Forces in mechanically interlocked materials.Chemical Society reviews · 2026
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  3. The Story of the Little Blue Box: A Tribute to Siegfried Hünig.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Damien SluysmansUR Molecular Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3462-4407
Sandrine HubertUR Molecular Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Carson J BrunsDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Zhixue ZhuDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
J Fraser StoddartDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Anne-Sophie DuwezUR Molecular Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. asduwez@uliege.be.ORCID 0000-0003-1594-2271

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Folding is a ubiquitous process that nature uses to control the conformations of its molecular machines, allowing them to perform chemical and mechanical tasks. Over the years, chemists have synthesized foldamers that adopt well-defined and stable folded architectures, mimicking the control expressed by natural systems

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Microscopy, Atomic ForceModels, MolecularMolecular ConformationNanotechnologyNaphthalenesParaquatRotaxanesThermodynamicsWeight-BearingNaphthalenesParaquatRotaxanes

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