Polymeric chains crosslinked through supramolecular interactions—directional and
reversible non-covalent interactions—compose an emerging class of modular and tunable …

Polymers, ceramics and metals have historically dominated the application of materials in
medicine. Yet rationally designed materials that exploit specific, directional, tunable and …

The most striking and general property of the biological fibrous architectures in the
extracellular matrix (ECM) is the strong and directional interaction between biologically …

Biomaterials have been extensively used to leverage beneficial outcomes in various
therapeutic applications, such as providing spatial and temporal control over the release of …

Engineering materials using supramolecular principles enables generalizable and modular
platforms that have tunable chemical, mechanical, and biological properties. Applying this …

The self-assembly of low-molecular-weight building motifs into supramolecular polymers
has unlocked a new realm of materials with distinct properties and tremendous potential for …

An understanding of how natural materials perform and how their assembly processes work
is being applied to guide the design and performance of medical materials at the macro …

In supramolecular materials, molecular building blocks are designed to interact with one
another via non‐covalent interactions in order to create function. This offers the opportunity …

As a novel class of dynamic and non‐covalent polymers, supramolecular polymers not only
display specific structural and physicochemical properties, but also have the ability to …

The use of biomaterials composed of organic pristine components has been successfully
described in several purposes, such as tissue engineering and drug delivery. Drug delivery …