Issue 9, 2013
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Polymer Chemistry

A water-soluble, shape-persistent, mouldable supramolecular polymer with redox-responsiveness in the presence of a molecular chaperone†

Xiaodong Chi,a   Donghua Xu,b   Xuzhou Yan,a   Jianzhuang Chen,a   Mingming Zhang,a   Bingjie Hu,c   Yihua Yuc  and  Feihe Huang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
E-mail: fhuang@zju.edu.cn
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b State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China

c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China

Abstract

A water-soluble supramolecular polymer has been constructed from self-assembly of a heteroditopic monomer. It shows redox-responsiveness in the presence of a molecular chaperone. Furthermore, this supramolecular polymer material is shape-persistent and free-standing, which can be easily processed into various shapes. These unique features are all due to the dynamically reversible host–guest complexation and good mechanical properties of this supramolecular polymer, making it a platform to construct advanced and sophisticated materials. The formation of the supramolecular polymer was characterized by various techniques including two-dimensional diffusion-ordered NMR, scanning electron microscopy, and viscosity and rheology measurements.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3PY00201B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Feb 2013
Accepted
14 Feb 2013
First published
15 Feb 2013

Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 2767-2772

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A water-soluble, shape-persistent, mouldable supramolecular polymer with redox-responsiveness in the presence of a molecular chaperone

X. Chi, D. Xu, X. Yan, J. Chen, M. Zhang, B. Hu, Y. Yu and F. Huang, Polym. Chem., 2013, 4, 2767 DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00201B

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