2021/01/25 by Resat Aksakal, Chiel Mertens, Matthieu Soete +2 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials #Chemical Synthesis and Analysis #Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/advs.202004038
openalex publication_date 2021/01/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
In the last decade, the field of sequence-defined polymers and related ultraprecise, monodisperse synthetic macromolecules has grown exponentially. In the early stage, mainly articles or reviews dedicated to the development of synthetic routes toward their preparation have been published. Nowadays, those synthetic methodologies, combined with the elucidation of the structure-property relationships, allow envisioning many promising applications. Consequently, in the past 3 years, application-oriented papers based on discrete synthetic macromolecules emerged. Hence, material science applications such as macromolecular data storage and encryption, self-assembly of discrete structures and foldamers have been the object of many fascinating studies. Moreover, in the area of life sciences, such structures have also been the focus of numerous research studies. Here, it is aimed to highlight these recent applications and to give the reader a critical overview of the future trends in this area of research.