From Supramolecular Polymers to Supramolecular Materials

Metallo-supramolecular cyclic polymers.

Cyclic brush polymers represent an exciting new macromolecular topology. For the first time, this new topology has been combined with metallo-supramolecular interactions to construct novel cyclic brush polymers. Here, ring-expansion metathesis polymerization was used to synthesize a universal cyclic template with a polynorbornene backbone, which was further modified with the metal-chelating syn...

Electrospinning Bioactive Supramolecular Polymers from Water

Electrospinning is a high-throughput, low-cost technique for manufacturing long fibers from solution. Conventionally, this technique is used with covalent polymers with large molecular weights. We report here the electrospinning of functional peptide-based supramolecular polymers from water at very low concentrations (<4 wt %). Molecules with low molecular weights (<1 kDa) could be electrospun ...

Supramolecular polymerization from polypeptide-grafted comb polymers.

The helical and tubular structures self-assembled from proteins have inspired scientists to design synthetic building blocks that can be "polymerized" into supramolecular polymers through coordinated noncovalent interactions. However, cooperative supramolecular polymerization from large, synthetic macromolecules remains a challenge because of the difficulty of controlling the structure and inte...

Metal-containing and metallo-supramolecular polymers and materials.

Final Report: Supramolecular Polymers With Multiple Types of Binding Motifs: From Fundamental Studies to Multifunctional Materials

Final Report: Supramolecular Polymers With Multiple Types of Binding Motifs: From Fundamental Studies to Multifunctional Materials Report Title This research project is focused on the development and investigation of a new class of multi-stimuli-responsive polymers, which are designed exhibit different responses upon exposure to different stimuli. The concept here is the development of material...