Sulfur and its functional groups are major players in an area of exciting research taking
place in modern polymer and materials science, both in academia and industry. In fact …

Sulfur has been important in dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) since the beginning of the
field. Mainly as part of disulfides and thioesters, dynamic sulfur‐based bonds (DSBs) have a …

To access infinitely recyclable plastics, one appealing approach is to design
thermodynamically neutral systems based on dynamic covalent bond, the (de) …

Peptidomimetics represent an important field in chemistry, pharmacology and material
science as they circumvent the limitations of traditional peptides used in therapy. Self …

It is widely assumed that the condensation of building blocks into oligomers and polymers
was important in the origins of life. High activation energies, unfavorable thermodynamics …

Inspired by the uniqueness of ring-opening polymerization and the ubiquity of sulfur-
containing heterocycles, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of sulfur-containing …

During the last decades, biopolymers experienced a renaissance. The increasing limitation
of fossil resources in combination with a public demand for environmental-friendly and …

A central challenge in the development of next-generation sustainable materials is to design
polymers that can easily revert back to their monomeric starting material through chemical …

This article reports rate constants for thiol–thioester exchange (k ex), and for acid-mediated
(ka), base-mediated (kb), and pH-independent (kw) hydrolysis of S-methyl thioacetate and S …

Numerous long-standing questions in origins-of-life research center on the history of
biopolymers. For example, how and why did nature select the polypeptide backbone and …