Equilibrium Model for Supramolecular Copolymerizations.

ABSTRACT: The coassembly of different building blocks into supramolecular copolymers provides a promising avenue to control their properties and to thereby expand the potential of supramolecular polymers in applications. However, contrary to covalent copolymerization which nowadays can be well controlled, the control over sequence, polymer length, and morphology in supramolecular copolymers is to date less developed, and their structures are more determined by the delicate balance in binding free energies between the distinct building blocks than by kinetics. Consequently, to rationalize the structures of supramolecular copolymers, a thorough understanding of their thermodynamic behavior is needed. Though this is well established for single-component assemblies and over the past years several models

SUBMITTER: Ten Eikelder HMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681264 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature