Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Polymer cyclization for the emergence of hierarchical nanostructures

  • Chaojian Chen,
  • Manjesh Kumar Singh,
  • Katrin Wunderlich,
  • Sean Harvey,
  • Colette J. Whitfield,
  • Zhixuan Zhou,
  • Manfred Wagner,
  • Katharina Landfester,
  • Ingo Lieberwirth,
  • George Fytas,
  • Kurt Kremer,
  • Debashish Mukherji,
  • David Y. W. Ng,
  • Tanja Weil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24222-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Synthetic polymer nano-objects with well-defined hierarchical structures are important for a wide range of applications such as nanomaterial synthesis, catalysis, and therapeutics. Here the authors demonstrate the strategy of fabricating controlled hierarchical structures through self-assembly of folded synthetic polymers.