Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Resorbable polymer electrospun nanofibers: History, shapes and application for tissue engineering

T Wu, M Ding, C Shi, Y Qiao, P Wang, R Qiao… - Chinese Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Resorbable polymer electrospun nanofiber-based materials/devices have high surface-to-
volume ratio and often have a porous structure with excellent pore interconnectivity, which …

Identification of a Frank–Kasper Z phase from shape amphiphile self-assembly

Z Su, CH Hsu, Z Gong, X Feng, J Huang, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Frank–Kasper phases, a family of ordered structures formed from particles with spherical
motifs, are found in a host of materials, such as metal alloys, inorganic colloids and various …

Geared toward applications: A perspective on functional sequence-controlled polymers

C Yang, KB Wu, Y Deng, J Yuan, J Niu - ACS macro letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sequence-controlled polymers are an emerging class of synthetic polymers with a regulated
sequence of monomers. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the …

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane hybrid polymers: well‐defined architectural design and potential functional applications

F Chen, F Lin, Q Zhang, R Cai, Y Wu… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)‐hybrid polymers have been successfully
employed as functional inorganic–organic hybrid materials for various applications due to …

Ordered mesoporous silica pyrolyzed from single-source self-assembled organic–inorganic giant surfactants

QY Guo, XY Yan, W Zhang, XH Li, Y Xu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the preparation of hexagonal mesoporous silica from single-source giant
surfactants constructed via dihydroxyl-functionlized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane …

Integrated POSS-dendrimer nanohybrid materials: current status and future perspective

Z Li, J Hu, L Yang, X Zhang, X Liu, Z Wang, Y Li - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-dendrimer hybrid materials have attracted
great interest in the past ten years. The integration of inorganic POSS and organic …

Quasicrystals and their approximants in a crystalline–amorphous diblock copolymer

AJ Mueller, AP Lindsay, A Jayaraman, TP Lodge… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Discoveries of Frank–Kasper phases and closely related dodecagonal quasicrystals
(DDQCs) in soft, mesoscopic systems have galvanized efforts to unveil the fundamental …

Dendronized poly (2-oxazoline) displays within only five monomer repeat units liquid quasicrystal, A15 and σ Frank–Kasper phases

MN Holerca, D Sahoo, BE Partridge… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Liquid quasicrystals (LQC) have been discovered in self-assembling benzyl ether,
biphenylmethyl ether, phenylpropyl ether, biphenylpropyl ether and some of their hybrid …

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS)‐based hybrid materials: molecular design, solution self‐assembly and biomedical applications

L Fan, X Wang, D Wu - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the tremendous advantages and unique well‐defined nanoscale structure,
polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have received considerable interest in the …