From precision polymers to complex materials and systems

JF Lutz, JM Lehn, EW Meijer… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Complex chemical systems, such as living biological matter, are highly organized structures
based on discrete molecules in constant dynamic interactions. These natural materials can …

Sulfur chemistry in polymer and materials science

H Mutlu, EB Ceper, X Li, J Yang… - Macromolecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Towards high-performance sustainable polymers via isomerization-driven irreversible ring-opening polymerization of five-membered thionolactones

P Yuan, Y Sun, X Xu, Y Luo, M Hong - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
The development of sustainable polymers that possess useful material properties
competitive with existing petroleum-derived polymers is a crucial goal but remains a …

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 …

4-Hydroxyproline-derived sustainable polythioesters: controlled ring-opening polymerization, complete recyclability, and facile functionalization

J Yuan, W Xiong, X Zhou, Y Zhang, D Shi… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of chemically recyclable polymers presents a significant
opportunity to polymer scientists to tackle the growing environmental and energy problems …

Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Where biology and traditional polymers meet: The potential of associating sequence-defined polymers for materials science

AJ DeStefano, RA Segalman, EC Davidson - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely defined monomeric sequences present an exquisite tool for
controlling material properties by harnessing both the robustness of synthetic polymers and …

Defining the field of sequence‐controlled polymers

JF Lutz - Sequence‐Controlled Polymers, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last ten years, the development of synthetic polymers containing controlled
monomer sequences has become a prominent topic in fundamental and applied polymer …

Triazolinediones enable ultrafast and reversible click chemistry for the design of dynamic polymer systems

S Billiet, K De Bruycker, F Driessen, H Goossens… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
With its focus on synthetic reactions that are highly specific and reliable,'click'chemistry has
become a valuable tool for many scientific research areas and applications. Combining the …

Design and synthesis of digitally encoded polymers that can be decoded and erased

RK Roy, A Meszynska, C Laure, L Charles… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Biopolymers such as DNA store information in their chains using controlled sequences of
monomers. Here we describe a non-natural information-containing macromolecule that can …