Template-Free Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Polymers into Nano/Microstructured Materials |
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Authors: | Shengda Liu Jiayun Xu Xiumei Li Tengfei Yan Shuangjiang Yu Hongcheng Sun Junqiu Liu |
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Institution: | College of Material Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; (S.L.); (J.X.); (X.L.); (T.Y.); (S.Y.) |
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Abstract: | In the past few decades, enormous efforts have been made to synthesize covalent polymer nano/microstructured materials with specific morphologies, due to the relationship between their structures and functions. Up to now, the formation of most of these structures often requires either templates or preorganization in order to construct a specific structure before, and then the subsequent removal of previous templates to form a desired structure, on account of the lack of “self-error-correcting” properties of reversible interactions in polymers. The above processes are time-consuming and tedious. A template-free, self-assembled strategy as a “bottom-up” route to fabricate well-defined nano/microstructures remains a challenge. Herein, we introduce the recent progress in template-free, self-assembled nano/microstructures formed by covalent two-dimensional (2D) polymers, such as polymer capsules, polymer films, polymer tubes and polymer rings. |
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Keywords: | template-free self-assembly 2D polymer polymer capsules polymer films polymer tubes and rings |
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