Supramolecular polymers exhibit fascinating structures, and their properties, and thus
applications, depend both on the strength and dynamics of the non-covalent bonds and on …

Supramolecular polymer networks are materials crosslinked by reversible supramolecular
interactions, such as hydrogen bonding or electrostatic interactions. Supramolecular …

Supramolecular materials, dynamic materials by nature, are defined as materials whose
components are bridged via reversible connections and undergo spontaneous and …

Since the first polymers were discovered, scientists have debated their structures. Before
Hermann Staudinger published the brilliant concept of macromolecules, polymer properties …

1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly developing field of …

With the introduction of supramolecular polymers, which are polymers based on monomeric
units held together with directional and reversible secondary interactions, the playground for …

Calixarenes are one kind of phenol–formaldehyde cyclic oligomers, discovered from the
Bakelite process. Their intrinsic characteristics, including the unique structural scaffold, facile …

Hydrogen bonds are like human beings in the sense that they exhibit typical grouplike
behavior. As an individual they are feeble, easy to break, and sometimes hard to detect …

Recently, supramolecular chemistry has been expanding to supramolecular polymer
chemistry. The combination of cyclic molecules and linear polymers has provided many …

Louis Kahn, architect of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, said 1 “even a common, ordinary brick
wants to be something more than it is.” Suppose that were also true of molecules. We know …