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 …

Self-assembly of copolymer micelles: higher-level assembly for constructing hierarchical structure

Y Lu, J Lin, L Wang, L Zhang, C Cai - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the self-assembly of copolymer micelles has become an appealing frontier
of supramolecular chemistry as a strategy to construct superstructures with multiple levels of …

Solute–solvent interactions in modern physical organic chemistry: Supramolecular polymers as a muse

MFJ Mabesoone, ARA Palmans… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interactions between solvents and solutes are a cornerstone of physical organic chemistry
and have been the subject of investigations over the last century. In recent years, a renewed …

Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibres for visible-light-driven hydrogen production

J Tian, Y Zhang, L Du, Y He, XH Jin, S Pearce… - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
The creation of efficient artificial systems that mimic natural photosynthesis represents a key
current challenge. Here, we describe a high-performance recyclable photocatalytic core …

Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers

S Ganda, MH Stenzel - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has emerged as a technique that is able
to perform solution phase self-assembly of semi-crystalline block copolymers in a controlled …

Long-lived charge-transfer state from B–N frustrated Lewis pairs enchained in supramolecular copolymers

B Adelizzi, P Chidchob, N Tanaka… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The field of supramolecular polymers is rapidly expanding; however, the exploitation of
these systems as functional materials is still elusive. To become competitive, supramolecular …

Scalable and uniform length-tunable biodegradable block copolymer nanofibers with a polycarbonate core via living polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self …

CE Ellis, JD Garcia-Hernandez… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Uniform 1D block copolymer (BCP) nanofibers prepared by the seeded-growth approach
termed living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) offer promising potential for …

Future of supramolecular copolymers unveiled by reflecting on covalent copolymerization

B Adelizzi, NJ Van Zee, LNJ de Windt… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular copolymers are an emerging class of materials, and in the last years their
potential has been demonstrated on a broad scale. Implementing noncovalent polymers …

A guide to supramolecular polymerizations

M Hartlieb, EDH Mansfield, S Perrier - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular polymers or fibers are non-covalent assemblies of unimeric building blocks
connected by secondary interactions such as hydrogen bonds or π–π interactions. Such …

Seeded epitaxial growth of crystallizable polymers governed by crystallization temperatures

L Liu, L Zhu, Z Chu, Z Tong - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Seeded growth is generally regarded as an ambient-temperature, living crystallization-
driven self-assembly (CDSA) approach of block copolymers (BCPs) with crystallizable cores …