Supramolecular polymers, originating from the integration of polymer science and
supramolecular chemistry, have been a rapidly develo** interdisciplinary research area …

1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

Automatic repair: a polymer with pendent dibenzo [24] crown-8 units (purple in picture) was
cross-linked by two bisammonium salts (green) to form two supramolecular gels based on …

With the introduction of supramolecular polymers, which are polymers based on monomeric
units held together with directional and reversible secondary interactions, the playground for …

Pillar [n] arenes (P [n] As) and their derivatives, consisting of (substituted) hydroquinone
units linked by methylene bridges at para-positions, are new type of cyclophane hosts …

Supramolecular polymers, polymeric systems beyond the molecule, have attracted more
and more attention from scientists due to their applications in various fields, including stimuli …

Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 362–369© 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
molecular weight aggregates driven by host–guest interactions between the B21C7 host …

In the 21st century, soft materials will become more important as functional materials
because of their dynamic nature. Although soft materials are not as highly durable as hard …

Since their discovery in 2008, pillar [n] arenes have been a popular family of macrocyclic
arene hosts due to their accessible one-step synthesis, convenient functionalization …

In the past three decades, chemistry has changed from focusing on a single molecule to
molecular assemblies. Through the discovery of macrocycles, the chemistry of molecular …