Anions as Efficient Chain Stoppers for Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Polymers

Chain stopper engineering for hydrogen bonded supramolecular polymers

Supramolecular polymers are linear chains of low molar mass monomers held together by reversible and directional non-covalent interactions, which can form gels or highly viscous solutions if the self-assembled chains are sufficiently long and rigid. The viscosity of these solutions can be controlled by adding monofunctional compounds, which interact with the chain extremities: chain stoppers. W...

Multiple Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Polymers

Hydrogen bonded supramolecular polymers in moderately polar solvents.

Hydrogen bonded assemblies are usually decomposed by polar organic solvents. However, we have succeeded in preparing a strongly associated supramolecular polymer which forms viscous solutions in competitive solvents such as tetrahydrofuran.

Novel Supramolecular Side-Chain Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystalline Polymers Containing Covalent- and Hydrogen-Bonded Bent Cores

Novel supramolecular side-chain banana-shaped liquid crystalline (LC) polymer complexes AmBn-N bearing various (m/n) molar ratios of hydrogenand covalent-bonded bent-core components were acquired by the free radical polymerization, where the hydrogen-bonded (H-bonded) structures were executed via mixing equimolar portions of proton donor (H-donor) polymers AmBn (homopolymers/ copolymers) and py...

Semi-flexible hydrogen-bonded and non-hydrogen bonded lattice polymers

We investigate the addition of stiffness to the lattice model of hydrogen-bonded polymers in two and three dimensions. We find that, in contrast to polymers that interact via a homogeneous short-range interaction, the collapse transition is unchanged by any amount of stiffness: this supports the physical argument that hydrogen bonding already introduces an effective stiffness. Contrary to possi...