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ArticleNature2024

Force-controlled release of small molecules with a rotaxane actuator.

Lei Chen, Robert Nixon, Guillaume De Bo

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
30.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Forces in mechanically interlocked materials.Chemical Society reviews · 2026
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  7. Bio-Based Covalent Adaptable Oligorotaxane Networks.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  10. Template-Controlled Mechanochemical Dissociation of a Rotaxane.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  14. Force-Induced Ring Flipping in a Threaded Pillar[5]Arene.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lei ChenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0249-4166
Robert NixonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1555-9678
Guillaume De BoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. guillaume.debo@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-2670-6370
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

China Scholarship CouncilRoyal Society Enhancement Award. G.D.B. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Force-controlled release of small molecules offers great promise for the delivery of drugs and the release of healing or reporting agents in a medical or materials context

Indexed as

Delayed-Action PreparationsRotaxanesFluorescent DyesPharmaceutical PreparationsPolymersDelayed-Action PreparationsFluorescent DyesPharmaceutical PreparationsPolymersRotaxanes

Identifiers

PMID38600268
PMCPMC11006608
OpenAlexW4394675788

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Registered trials

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