Themed collection Most popular 2024 polymer and supramolecular chemistry articles

Antiaromatic rings can be assembled into discrete or polymeric assemblies to explore emerging properties. This perspective compares antiaromatic rings as potential building blocks and covers reported antiaromatic ring assemblies.

Electrochemistry shows promising new avenues in the recycling of polymeric materials. This work reviews electrochemical depolymerization, post-polymerization functionalization, and paired catalysis, highlighting future challenges and opportunities.

An overview of PVC functionalization through the lens of chemical recycling.

Advances in bioorthogonal polyoxometalate (POM) chemistry will open exciting opportunities for the controlled use of stimuli-responsive POM-based organic–inorganic nanoassemblies in biomedical applications as well as catalysis and electronics.

The construction of functional structures within a single plane still has a lot of challenges. This review article will help us find new groundbreaking directions in lateral nanoarchitectonics toward advanced functional material organization.

This tutorial review gives an overview over the different lipid – block copolymer hybrid vesicle designs, and provides a detailed analysis of their properties. It puts emphasis on their application in bottom-up synthetic biology.

The synergy of supramolecular interactions and covalent polymer chains enables semi-crystalline polymers with enhanced mechanical performance and dynamic adaptivity.

Two nanometer-sized, nitrogen-containing molecular cylinders were synthesized by connecting the cycloparaphenylene and fused aromatic moieties using cyclocondensation reaction.

The poly(aryl ether) derivatives with built-in recyclability is developed by integrating directing group.

A hydrogen bonding cage effectively recognizes anions in water and catalyzes the oxidation of oxalate.

This study explores intricate pathway complexity in peptide self-assembly, revealing chiroptical switching phenomenon influenced by temperature, denaturation, and cosolvent content, offering new insights into switchable piezoresponsive behavior.

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) devices hold huge potential to convert solar energy into chemical energy.

Population-weighted principal moments of inertia and exit vectors analyses of shapeshifting bullvalenes reveals the diversity in their 3D structures.

An endo-functionalized molecular cage for selective recognition of creatinine was developed and employed as an ionophore, which enables the accurate potentiometric determination of creatinine levels in biological samples.

The self-assembly and bulk properties of NPDIs 1–4 are reported. In solution, increasing the length of the tether changes the mechanism from cooperative (1–3) to isodesmic (4). Bulk studies show an odd-even effect depending on the linker.

The first example of poly(vinyl ether)-block-poly(thiirane)-block-poly(acrylamide) from sequentially combining photocontrolled cationic, thioacyl anionic group transfer, and radical polymerization with no intermediate end-group manipulation steps.

Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of tetramer 1 forms inherently chiral nor-heteracalixarenes 2 in high yields and ees. The chirality arises solely from the hindered through-the-annulus rotation of the low rim alkoxy substituent in ring A.

The synthesis of poly(ester-alt-ethers) is achieved by controlled ring-opening copolymerizations of commercial anhydrides and epoxides using a Zr(IV) catalyst. The catalysis shows unusual ABB monomer sequence selectivity and polymer properties depend upon both the monomers and the sequence.

We introduce planarity breaking as a new design strategy for controlled supramolecular polymerization.

A non-classical pathway of full-length amyloidogenic proteins assembled at the air–water interface is discovered. The brick-packing of self-adaptive plate-like oligomers resulted in a protein-based 2D Janus nanofilm with a high Young's modulus.

The “Circe effect” in supramolecular catalysis: the investment in entropy of CB[7] upon substrate binding accounts for the acceleration (k_included/k_bulk up to 10⁴!) of the intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction of tertiary furfuryl amines.

We show that weaker acid catalysis has profound effects on the dynamicity of vinylogous urethane based polymer networks. Moreover, the dynamicity could be adjusted by changing electronic and steric parameters in the catalytic environment.

The rules underpinning the dynamic low-symmetry conformation of a symmetric organic cage are decoded, and rationally reapplied to access new cages with constrained symmetry. This allows tuning of conformation, height and shape for guest binding.

Single bond linked macrocycles (MS-4T/MS-6T) and corresponding heterocycloarenes (MF-4T/MF-6T) were designed and synthesized, which show size- and geometry-dependent host–guest properties.

N₃,O-calix[2]arene[2]triazines, whose inherent chirality arises from one different heteroatom linkage, were synthesized enantioselectively in ee up to 95% from macrocyclization via chiral monophosphoric acid-catalyzed intramolecular S_NAr reaction.

Well-defined block copolymers containing helical poly(acyl methane) and π-conjugated poly(phenylene ethynylene)s were facilely prepared, which self-assembly into chiral supramolecular architectures with circularly polarized luminescence.

We highlight here current trends of “green” materials for Cultural Heritage, and we introduce a new methodology to determine macromolecule's log P, applying it to the development of new smart organogels for Cultural Heritage conservation.

Selective chemical upcycling of poly(isobutyl vinyl ether) was achieved using photooxidative degradation, producing oxidized small molecules that can be tuned depending on a choice of photocatalysts.

We describe sulfate-templated synthesis of an electroneutral catenane capable of strong and selective binding of anions in highly competitive solvents. Sulfate is a pH-switchable template enabling large-amplitude motions of the interlocked structure.