Click chemistry strategies for the accelerated synthesis of functional macromolecules

Z Geng, JJ Shin, Y Xi, CJ Hawker - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Click chemistry is one of the most powerful strategies for constructing polymeric soft
materials with precise control over architecture and functionality. In this review, we provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

Hierarchical nanomaterials assembled from peptoids and other sequence-defined synthetic polymers

Z Li, B Cai, W Yang, CL Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In nature, the self-assembly of sequence-specific biopolymers into hierarchical structures
plays an essential role in the construction of functional biomaterials. To develop synthetic …

Direct synthesis of polymer nanotubes by aqueous dispersion polymerization of a cyclodextrin/styrene complex

X Chen, L Liu, M Huo, M Zeng, L Peng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A one‐step synthesis of nanotubes by RAFT dispersion polymerization of
cyclodextrin/styrene (CD/St) complexes directly in water is presented. The resulted …

Self-assembly of alternating copolymer vesicles for the highly selective, sensitive and visual detection and quantification of aqueous Hg2+

T Rasheed, C Li, F Nabeel, W Huang, Y Zhou - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing demand to develop highly sensitive and
selective colorimetric detection systems to tackle the growing threat of potentially toxic …

[HTML][HTML] Designable and dynamic single-walled stiff nanotubes assembled from sequence-defined peptoids

H Jin, YH Ding, M Wang, Y Song, Z Liao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite recent advances in the assembly of organic nanotubes, conferral of sequence-
defined engineering and dynamic response characteristics to the tubules remains a …

pH-induced amphiphilicity-reversing schizophrenic aggregation by alternating copolymers

P Sar, S Ghosh, YD Gordievskaya, KG Goswami… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A series of copolymers with controlled monomer sequences are prepared via the reversible
addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of tert-butyl carbamate (Boc)-l-alanine …

What determines the formation of block copolymer nanotubes?

F Lv, Z An, P Wu - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Block copolymer (BCP) nanotubes are of great significance in biomedical materials and
nanotechnology. However, it remains challenging to prepare nanotubes by direct self …

Mussel‐Inspired Alternating Copolymer as a High‐Performance Adhesive Material Both at Dry and Under‐Seawater Conditions

X Sha, C Zhang, M Qi, L Zheng, B Cai… - Macromolecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Marine mussels have the ability to cling to various surfaces at wet or underwater conditions,
which inspires the research of catechol‐functionalized polymers (CFPs) to develop high …

Driving forces and molecular interactions in the self-assembly of block copolymers to form fiber-like micelles

Y He, Y Tang, Y Zhang, L MacFarlane… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
One-dimensional (1D) nanoscale objects abundant in nature commonly possess
hierarchical structures and are generally constructed via bottom-up self-assembly strategies …