Nature successfully manages under extremely adverse conditions to accomplish intricate
functions responsible for the regulation and control of the vast majority of biological …

The reversible nature of non-covalent interactions between constituting building blocks
permits one to temporarily disassemble supramolecular polymers through the application of …

Three light-sensitive amphiphiles, based on azobenzene, have been synthesized as
supramolecular gelators. A hydrophobic chain with an azobenzene group incorporated at …

Supramolecular biomaterials based on hydrogen bonding units can be conveniently
functionalized in a mix-and-match approach using supramolecular additives. The …

Nature employs several strategies in fabricating high-performance materials from which
scientists can garner important lessons for producing synthetic materials with enhanced …

Self-sorting in thermoplastic elastomers was studied using bisurea-based thermoplastic
elastomers (TPEs) which are known to form hard blocks via hierarchical aggregation of …

Nature utilizes hydrogen bonding to guide the supramolecular assembly of lipids, proteins,
and DNA, thereby imparting remarkable stimuli-responsiveness, structure-forming ability …

Strain in polyetherurea thermoplastic elastomers with poly (tetramethylene oxide) soft blocks
and well-defined bisurea hard blocks was probed through changes in fluorescence …

Rod-like micelles, formed from bolaamphiphiles with oligo (ethylene oxide) hydrophilic outer
segments and a hydrophobic segment with diacetylene flanked by two urea moieties, were …

The mechanical properties of scaffolds used for mechanically challenging applications such
as cardiovascular implants are unequivocally important. Here, the effect of supramolecular …