A water-soluble, shape-persistent, mouldable supramolecular polymer with redox-responsiveness in the presence of a molecular chaperone.
writer：Xiaodong Chi, Donghua Xu, Xuzhou Yan, Jianzhuang Chen, Mingming Zhang, Bingjie Hu, Yihua Yu and
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source：期刊
specific source：Polym. Chem. 2013, 4, 2767-2772.
Issue time：2013年
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.