Themed collection Editors' collection: Supramolecular Polymers

The recent progress of peptide-based injectable hydrogels for biomedical applications is extensively summarized.

Hierarchical computational modelling approaches for the study of supramolecular polymers is reviewed.

Nature's fuel-driven approach as a generic concept for structural and temporal regulation over biomimetic synthetic supramolecular polymerization.

Dynamicity plays a central role in biological systems, which can be mimicked by tuning dynamicity in hydrogel networks.

Self-assembled π-conjugated nanoparticles with tunable optical characteristics are appealing for sensing and imaging applications due to their intrinsic fluorescence, supramolecular organization and dynamics.

Supramolecular ionic liquid elastomers showed higher fracture energy than chemically cross-linked ionic liquid elastomers and also self-recovery ability.

Design and synthesis of supramolecular functional monomers bearing urea and norbornene.

Nucleolipids protects methylene blue against reduction (induced by light and chemical reductants) and do not impair antimalarial activity.

The self-assembly of supra-amphiphiles building block fabricated by β-CD and AD-C₁₁im at diverse molar ratios was studied. The micelles of AD-C₁₁im turned into monolayer vesicles, net-like nanofibers and hydrogel at different β-CD/AD-C₁₁im system.

Spontaneous transformation from achiral J-aggregates to chiral H-aggregates of cyanine dye MTC was investigated.

An unconventional supramolecular self-assembly triggered by left-handed circularly polarized light breaks the traditional knowledge of azobenzene photoisomerization.

Conformational transition in non-associative fluorinated dendrimer—a way to novel unconventional amphiphiles.

Metallo-supramolecular polymers with the incorporation of benzothiadiazole-substituted organoplatinum moiety have been successfully constructed.

TPE-Ser molecules exhibit non-covalent interactions necessary for hydrogelation under physiological pH conditions.

Enantio narcissistic self-assembly is observed in a multi-metallic structure used as stereodynamic probe for CD measurements.

We developed supramolecular hydrogels encapsulating bioengineered mesenchymal stem cells for ischemia therapy.

The importance of side chains of amino acids for NDI–Py co-assembled hydrogelation is described.

Multi-morphology supramolecular polymers from linear to dendritic polymerization by the introduction of azobenzene were obtained based on host–guest interaction.

A polymer prepared by co-polymerisation of sulfur and canola oil removed Fe³⁺ from water. Microwave irradiation was convenient in promoting the polymerisation.

Discotic trisamide formed a self-assembled polymer and exhibits inversion of supramolecular polymer handedness in the presence of HCl.

Novel ionogels with covalent polymeric networks based on polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers have been synthesized by the in situ crosslinking of amines via Schiff base reaction in the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIM][OAc]).

Two metallo-supramolecular polymers (polyNiL1 and polyNiL2) with different metal–metal distances were synthesized via (1 : 1) complexation of the Ni salts with bis(1,10-phenanthroline)s and their DNA binding properties and cytotoxicity were revealed.

Neutral linear supramolecular polymers were constructed by the combination of quadruple hydrogen bonding, pillar[5]arene-based molecular recognition and π–π donor–acceptor interactions.

This work provides the finding of aggregation-induced circular dichroism (AICD), optical properties and helical assemblies of π–π conjugated molecule hexaphenylsilole (HPS).

How a dynamic covalent library adapts to the presence of a surface is of fundamental importance for the design of adaptive materials. Our investigation demonstrates that the surface markedly rearrange the composition of the DCC libraries.

A series of novel metallo-supramolecular polymers was prepared, based on 2,6-bis(2-oxazolinyl)pyridine chelating groups bridged with thiophene, bithiophene and thienothiophene as a linker, beginning from commercially available (chelidamic) acid.