Characterization techniques of polymer aging: from beginning to end

R Tian, K Li, Y Lin, C Lu, X Duan - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers have been widely applied in various fields in the daily routines and the
manufacturing. Despite the awareness of the aggressive and inevitable aging for the …

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 …

Self-immolative polymers: an emerging class of degradable materials with distinct disassembly profiles

O Shelef, S Gnaim, D Shabat - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-immolative polymers are an emerging class of macromolecules with distinct
disassembly profiles that set them apart from other general degradable materials. These …

Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification

Q Shi, H Yin, R Song, J Xu, J Tan, X Zhou, J Cen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Identification and quantification of synthetic polymers in complex biological milieu are crucial
for delivery, sensing and scaffolding functions, but conventional techniques based on …

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 …

Recent advances in self-immolative linkers and their applications in polymeric reporting systems

AG Gavriel, MR Sambrook, AT Russell, W Hayes - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Interest in self-immolative chemistry has grown over the past decade with more research
groups harnessing the versatility to control the release of a compound from a larger …

Applications of discrete synthetic macromolecules in life and materials science: recent and future trends

R Aksakal, C Mertens, M Soete, N Badi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, the field of sequence‐defined polymers and related ultraprecise,
monodisperse synthetic macromolecules has grown exponentially. In the early stage, mainly …

Emerging Trends in the Chemistry of End-to-End Depolymerization

Z Deng, ER Gillies - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past couple of decades, polymers that depolymerize end-to-end upon cleavage of
their backbone or activation of a terminal functional group, sometimes referred to as “self …

Combining hydroxyl-yne and thiol-ene click reactions to facilely access sequence-defined macromolecules for high-density data storage

B Song, D Lu, A Qin, BZ Tang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Through mimicking the synthesis of hereditary-information-containing nucleic acids,
scientists are committed to synthesizing sequence-defined macromolecules. Herein, a …

Geared toward applications: A perspective on functional sequence-controlled polymers

C Yang, KB Wu, Y Deng, J Yuan, J Niu - ACS macro letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sequence-controlled polymers are an emerging class of synthetic polymers with a regulated
sequence of monomers. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the …