TY - JOUR
T1 - Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart Materials
AU - Zhang, Qi
AU - Qu, Da Hui
AU - Feringa, Ben L.
AU - Tian, He
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 22025503, 21790361, 21871084), Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (grant 2018SHZDZX03), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (grant B16017), Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (19XD1421100), and the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (grant 17520750100). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions grant agreement grant 101025041 (Q.Z.). B.L.F. acknowledges the financial support from The Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Gravitation program 024.601035).
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PY - 2022/2/9
Y1 - 2022/2/9
N2 - The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and dynamic covalent chemistry offers many approaches to the construction of dynamic polymers and materials that can adapt, respond, repair, and recycle. Within this toolbox, the building blocks based on 1,2-dithiolanes have become an important scaffold, featuring their reversible polymerization mediated by dynamic covalent disulfide bonds, which enables a unique class of dynamic materials at the intersection of supramolecular polymers and adaptable covalent networks. This Perspective aims to explore the dynamic chemistry of 1,2-dithiolanes as a versatile structural unit for the design of smart materials by summarizing the state of the art as well as providing an overview of the fundamental challenges involved in this research area and its potential future directions.
AB - The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and dynamic covalent chemistry offers many approaches to the construction of dynamic polymers and materials that can adapt, respond, repair, and recycle. Within this toolbox, the building blocks based on 1,2-dithiolanes have become an important scaffold, featuring their reversible polymerization mediated by dynamic covalent disulfide bonds, which enables a unique class of dynamic materials at the intersection of supramolecular polymers and adaptable covalent networks. This Perspective aims to explore the dynamic chemistry of 1,2-dithiolanes as a versatile structural unit for the design of smart materials by summarizing the state of the art as well as providing an overview of the fundamental challenges involved in this research area and its potential future directions.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.1c10359
DO - 10.1021/jacs.1c10359
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34990126
AN - SCOPUS:85123611479
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 144
SP - 2022
EP - 2033
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 5
ER -