Bottlebrush polymers: From controlled synthesis, self-assembly, properties to applications

Z Li, M Tang, S Liang, M Zhang, GM Biesold… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) have emerged as intriguing class of materials for an array of
applications, including supersoft elastomers, organic optoelectronics, templates for crafting …

Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

U Tritschler, S Pearce, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This Perspective outlines recent advances concerning the formation and potential uses of
block copolymer micelles, a class of soft-matter-based nanoparticles of growing importance …

Synthesis and characterization of metallo-supramolecular polymers

A Winter, US Schubert - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of metal centers into the backbone of polymers has led to the
development of a broad range of organometallic and coordination compounds featuring …

Self-assembly of copolymer micelles: higher-level assembly for constructing hierarchical structure

Y Lu, J Lin, L Wang, L Zhang, C Cai - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the self-assembly of copolymer micelles has become an appealing frontier
of supramolecular chemistry as a strategy to construct superstructures with multiple levels of …

Tailored energy funneling in photocatalytic π-conjugated polymer nanofibers for high-performance hydrogen production

Y Zhang, J Tian, H Shaikh, HK MacKenzie… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The creation of artificial high-performance photosynthetic assemblies with a tailorable
antenna system to deliver absorbed solar energy to a photosynthetic reaction center …

Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers

S Ganda, MH Stenzel - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has emerged as a technique that is able
to perform solution phase self-assembly of semi-crystalline block copolymers in a controlled …

AIE-active, stimuli-responsive fluorescent 2D block copolymer nanoplatelets based on corona chain compression

S Lei, J Tian, Y Kang, Y Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) represents a powerful tool in nanoscience as a result of
enhanced luminescence in the condensed state. Although AIEgenic materials have been …

Scalable and uniform length-tunable biodegradable block copolymer nanofibers with a polycarbonate core via living polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self …

CE Ellis, JD Garcia-Hernandez… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Uniform 1D block copolymer (BCP) nanofibers prepared by the seeded-growth approach
termed living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) offer promising potential for …

Two-dimensional assemblies from crystallizable homopolymers with charged termini

X He, MS Hsiao, CE Boott, RL Harniman, A Nazemi… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The creation of shaped, uniform and colloidally stable two-dimensional (2D) assemblies by
bottom-up methods represents a challenge of widespread current interest for a variety of …