Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) have emerged as intriguing class of materials for an array of
applications, including supersoft elastomers, organic optoelectronics, templates for crafting …

In this review, we provide an analysis of some of the recent literature reports on the
synthesis and applications of pH-responsive polymers. Depending on the solution pH, such …

Click chemistry constitutes a class of reactions broadly characterized by efficiency,
selectivity, and tolerance to a variety of solvents and functional groups. By far the most …

Multifunctional and multiresponsive hydrogels have presented a promising platform to
design and fabricate smart devices for application in a wide variety of fields. However, their …

Molecular brushes are composed of a flexible backbone and densely grafted side chains.
The conformation of molecular brushes is governed by side chains separated by a distance …

An amphiphilic pillar [5] arene was made. It could self-assemble to form vesicles and
multiwalled microtubes in water. Dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy …

The combination of highly efficient polymerizations with modular “click” coupling reactions
has enabled the synthesis of a wide variety of novel nanoscopic structures. Here we …

Graft-through ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) using ruthenium N-
heterocyclic carbene catalysts has enabled the synthesis of bottle-brush polymers with …

This year, it has been a decade that the concept of “click” chemistry was pioneered in
polymer and material science by the exploration of the synthetic scope of copper-catalyzed …

In the past decade, responsive polymers exhibiting reversible or irreversible changes in
physical properties and/or chemical structures in response to external stimuli have been …