Supramolecular polymerization through kinetic pathway control and living chain growth

M Wehner, F Würthner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Supramolecular polymers exhibit fascinating structures, and their properties, and thus
applications, depend both on the strength and dynamics of the non-covalent bonds and on …

Self-assembly as a key player for materials nanoarchitectonics

K Ariga, M Nishikawa, T Mori, J Takeya… - … and Technology of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The development of science and technology of advanced materials using nanoscale units
can be conducted by a novel concept involving combination of nanotechnology …

Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization via Bioinspired, Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of Monomers

S Patra, S Chandrabhas, S Dhiman… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dynamic supramolecular assemblies, driven by noncovalent interactions, pervade the
biological realm. In the synthetic domain, their counterparts, supramolecular polymers …

Multistep, site-selective noncovalent synthesis of two-dimensional block supramolecular polymers

N Sasaki, J Kikkawa, Y Ishii, T Uchihashi, H Imamura… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Although the principles of noncovalent bonding are well understood and form the basis for
the syntheses of many intricate supramolecular structures, supramolecular noncovalent …

Supramolecular polymorphism in one-dimensional self-assembly by kinetic pathway control

M Wehner, MIS Röhr, M Bühler… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Controlling polymorphism in molecular solids is of great interest since the properties and
performances of molecular materials depend on the molecules' mutual packing …

Self-sorted, random, and block supramolecular copolymers via sequence controlled, multicomponent self-assembly

A Sarkar, R Sasmal, C Empereur-Mot… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Multicomponent supramolecular copolymerization promises to construct complex
nanostructures with emergent properties. However, even with two monomeric components …

Control over multiple nano‐and secondary structures in peptide self‐assembly

G Ghosh, R Barman, A Mukherjee… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report the rich morphological and conformational versatility of a biologically
active peptide (PEP‐1), which follows diverse self‐assembly pathways to form up to six …

Secondary nucleation-triggered physical cross-links and tunable stiffness in seeded supramolecular hydrogels

R Laishram, S Sarkar, I Seth, N Khatun… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Mechanistic understanding and the control of molecular self-assembly at all hierarchical
levels remain grand challenges in supramolecular chemistry. Functional realization of …

Directed self-assembly of ultrasmall metal nanoclusters

Z Wu, Q Yao, S Zang, J **e - ACS Materials Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Directed self-assembly (DSA) of nanoparticles plays a key role in customizing advanced
functional materials via collective and synergetic properties between neighbored building …

Supramolecular block copolymers by seeded living polymerization of perylene bisimides

W Wagner, M Wehner, V Stepanenko… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Living covalent polymerization has been a subject of intense research for many decades
and has culminated in the synthesis of a large variety of block copolymers (BCPs) with …