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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 50, Issue 18, Pages 10025-10043Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00187f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22005242, 22001087, 21801204]
- Shaanxi Provincial Education Department [19JK0658]
- Science and Technology Program of Xi'an, China [2019217914GXRC015CG016-GXYD15.4, 201805038YD16CG22(4)]
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2020kfyXJJS013]
- University of Texas System
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [F-0018]
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) [OSR-2017-CRG6-3503.01, OSR-2019-CRG8-4032]
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This review summarizes the chemistry of water compatible supramolecular polymers (WCSPs) from 2016 to mid-2021, dividing them into five categories based on core supramolecular approaches. The discussion includes synthesis, polymer structure, design expectations, and potential applications, aiming to deepen understanding of strategies for preparing, properties, and uses of WCSPs.
Water compatible supramolecular polymers (WCSPs) combine aqueous compatibility with the reversibility and environmental responsiveness of supramolecular polymers. WCSPs have seen application across a number of fields, including stimuli-responsive materials, healable materials, and drug delivery, and are attracting increasing attention from the design, synthesis, and materials perspectives. In this review, we summarize the chemistry of WCSPs from 2016 to mid-2021. For the sake of discussion, we divide WCSPs into five categories based on the core supramolecular approaches at play, namely hydrogen-bonding arrays, electrostatic interactions, large pi-conjugated subunits, host-guest interactions, and peptide-based systems, respectively. We discuss both synthesis and polymer structure, as well as the underlying design expectations. The goal of this overview is to deepen our understanding of the strategies that have been exploited to prepare WCSPs, as well as their properties and uses. Thus, a section devoted to potential applications is included in this review.
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