Hierarchical nanomaterials assembled from peptoids and other sequence-defined synthetic polymers

Z Li, B Cai, W Yang, CL Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
In nature, the self-assembly of sequence-specific biopolymers into hierarchical structures
plays an essential role in the construction of functional biomaterials. To develop synthetic …

Peptoids and polypeptoids at the frontier of supra-and macromolecular engineering

N Gangloff, J Ulbricht, T Lorson, H Schlaad… - Chemical …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
In most general terms, polymers and their supramolecular assemblies have been defining
life on this planet since its conception. Polymers of nucleic acids carry the code of life and …

Peptoid polymers: a highly designable bioinspired material

J Sun, RN Zuckermann - ACS nano, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Bioinspired polymeric materials are attracting increasing attention due to significant
advantages over their natural counterparts: the ability to precisely tune their structures over a …

Thermoresponsive helical dendronized poly (phenylacetylene) s: remarkable stabilization of their helicity via photo-dimerization of the dendritic pendants

L Ren, X Lu, W Li, J Yan, AK Whittaker… - Journal of the American …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Dynamic helical polymers can change their helicity according to external stimuli due to the
low helix-inversion barriers, while helicity stabilization for polymers is important for …

Sequence programmable peptoid polymers for diverse materials applications

AS Knight, EY Zhou, MB Francis… - Advanced …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polymer sequence programmability is required for the diverse structures and complex
properties that are achieved by native biological polymers, but efforts towards controlling the …

Structure and rheology of polyelectrolyte complex coacervates

AB Marciel, S Srivastava, MV Tirrell - Soft Matter, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Scattering investigations of the structure and chain conformations, and the rheological
properties of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) comprising model polyelectrolytes are …

Polypeptoid materials: current status and future perspectives

D Zhang, SH Lahasky, L Guo, CU Lee… - Macromolecules, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
Polypeptoids have recently emerged as a subject of scientific interest due to their structural
resemblance to existing pseudo-peptidic polymers including poly (α-peptide) s, poly (β …

Polypeptoids: a model system to study the effect of monomer sequence on polymer properties and self-assembly

AM Rosales, RA Segalman, RN Zuckermann - Soft Matter, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
As the ability to control the monomer sequence of synthetic polymers increases, new
relationships between sequence, polymer structure, and functional properties are being …

Self-assembly of crystalline nanotubes from monodisperse amphiphilic diblock copolypeptoid tiles

J Sun, X Jiang, R Lund, KH Downing… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The folding and assembly of sequence-defined polymers into precisely ordered
nanostructures promises a class of well-defined biomimetic architectures with specific …

Linear versus Helical Side Chains in Bottlebrush Polymers: Morphology and Mechanochemistry

H Zhang, CE Diesendruck - Macromolecules, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) present numerous intriguing properties, eg, extended wormlike
conformation and compact molecular dimension. Here, we customize BBPs' architectures by …