Enhanced Stability and Properties of Benzene-1,3,5-Tricarboxamide Supramolecular Copolymers through Engineered Coupled Equilibria.

ABSTRACT: Improving the stability of multi-component and functional assemblies such as supramolecular copolymers without impeding their dynamicity is key for their implementation as innovative materials. Up to now, this has been achieved by a trial-and-error approach, requiring the time-consuming characterization of a series of supramolecular coassemblies. We report herein that this is possible to significantly enhance the stability of supramolecular copolymers by a minimal change in the chemical nature of one of the interacting monomers. This is achieved by replacing an ester function by an ether function in the structure of a chiral benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide (BTA) monomer, used as "sergeant", coassembled with achiral monomers, the "soldiers". Pseudo-phase diagrams, constructed by probing the na

SUBMITTER: Kong H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914932 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature