Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Sequence-controlled supramolecular terpolymerization directed by specific molecular recognitions

  • Takehiro Hirao,
  • Hiroaki Kudo,
  • Tomoko Amimoto,
  • Takeharu Haino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00683-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Nature can precisely control monomer sequences in biopolymers, but this is somewhat problematic in the formation of synthetic polymers. Here the authors show sequence-controlled supramolecular terpolymerization via self-sorting behavior among three sets of monomers possessing mismatched host-guest pairs.