Journal
PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 137, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2022.101635
Keywords
Supramolecular polymers; Hydrogen bonds; Metal-coordination bonds; Host-guest interactions; Aromatic donor-acceptor interactions
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22035006, OSR-2019-CRG8-4032, F-0018]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2022YFA1505900]
- Open Fund of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology [2019B030301003]
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2020kfyXJJS013]
- Open Fund of Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, Huazhong University of Scienceand Technology
- National Key Research and Development Program of China
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China
- Starry Night Science Fund of Zhejiang University Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Office of Sponsored Research
- Robert A. Welch Foundation
- [52002015]
- [22001087]
- [2020MCF08]
- [2021YFA0910100]
- [LD21B020001]
- [SN-ZJU-SIAS-006]
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Supramolecular polymers are self-assembled structures formed through noncovalent interactions, exhibiting reversibility, responsiveness, and stability. They have diverse applications in various fields. This review focuses on the determinants and driving forces of supramolecular polymer construction, highlighting the influence of different noncovalent interactions on their structure and function. Understanding these connections contributes to further advancements in this field.
Supramolecular polymers are, in broad brushstrokes, self-assembled structures built up from small building blocks via the use of noncovalent interactions. In favorable cases, supramolecular polymers embody the best features of covalent polymers while displaying unique reversibility, responsiveness, adaptiveness, and stability. This has made them of interest across a wide variety of fields, from molecular devices to sensors, drug delivery, cell recognition, and environmentally friendly materials systems. This review is concerned with the determinants that underlie supramolecular polymer construction, specifically the driving forces that have been exploited to create them. To date, nearly the full range of known noncovalent interactions (e.g., hydrogen-bonding, electrostatic interactions, charge transfer effects, and metal coordination, among others) has been exploited to create supramolecular polymers. Typically, one or more types of interactions is used to link appropriately designed monomers. The choice of noncovalent interaction can have a significant influence on the structure and function of the resulting supramolecular polymers. Understanding the connections between the forces responsible for the assembly of supramolecular polymers and their properties provides the foundation for further advances in this fast-moving field. Given the above, this review will discuss recent progress in the rapidly advancing field of supramolecular polymers organized by the types of underlying interactions. An overview of future challenges and opportunities for supramolecular polymers, including their formation, characterization, and applications, is also provided.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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