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- Title
Synergistic Assembly of Covalent and Supramolecular Polymers.
- Authors
Bai, Linyi; Zhao, Yanli
- Abstract
Integrating irreplaceable features of both covalent chemistry and noncovalent interactions into a single entity to maximize the applicability is highly desired. Here, a discovery of this type of hybrid, developed by Stupp and co-workers, is developed, where a synergistic combination of covalent and noncovalent compartments enables them to assemble by each other perfectively. The covalent compartments can grow into polymer chains assisted by a supramolecular compartment. The supramolecular compartments can be reversibly removed and re-formed to reconstitute the hybrid structure. The obtained soft materials can serve as functional platforms for molecular delivery or self-repairing materials.
- Subjects
SUPRAMOLECULAR polymers; SYNDEMICS; COVALENT bonds; HYBRID enzymes; MACROMOLECULES
- Publication
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2016, Vol 37, Issue 11, p920
- ISSN
1022-1336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/marc.201600153