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Steroid-Based Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Responsive and Biocompatible Materials of the Future. CRYSTALS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst12071000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Steroid-based liquid crystal polymers and co-polymers have come a long way, with new and significant advances being made every year. This paper reviews some of the recent key developments in steroid-based liquid crystal polymers and co-polymers. It covers the structure–property relationship between cholesterol and sterol-based compounds and their corresponding polymers, and the influence of chemical structure and synthesis conditions on the liquid crystalline behaviour. An overview of the nature of self-assembly of these materials in solvents and through polymerisation is given. The role of liquid crystalline properties in the applications of these materials, in the creation of nano-objects, drug delivery and biomedicine and photonic and electronic devices, is discussed.
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Doganci E, Kayabasi F, Davarcı D, Demir A, Gürek AG. Synthesis of liquid crystal polymers containing cholesterol side groups and investigation of their usability potential as an insulator in organic field effect transistor (OFET) applications. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-022-02895-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Liu L, Zhou F, Hu J, Cheng X, Zhang W, Zhang Z, Chen G, Zhou N, Zhu X. Topological Glycopolymers as Agglutinator and Inhibitor: Cyclic versus Linear. Macromol Rapid Commun 2019; 40:e1900223. [PMID: 31241813 DOI: 10.1002/marc.201900223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 06/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Carbohydrates play an important role in biological processes for their specific interactions with proteins. Cyclic glycopolymers are promising to mimic the topology of natural macrocycle-biomacromolecules due to their unique architecture of lacking chain ends. To systematically study the effect of glycopolymer architecture on the interactions with protein, the cyclic glycopolymers bearing galactose side-chain (cyclic PMAGn ) with three degrees of polymerization (n = 14, 24, 47) are prepared for the first time. The cyclic PMAGn exhibits unique properties in agglutinating and inhibiting proteins in subsequent studies by comparison with the linear precursor with the same molecular weights. More impressively, the cyclic PMAGn highlight the improved performance of cyclic architecture. For example, the cyclic PMAGn shows superior inhibition abilities to suppress amyloid formation from amyloid β protein fragment 1-42 aggregation and block the specific interaction between bacteria and galactose-modified surface compared to that of respective linear counterpart. This interesting finding suggests that the architecture of cyclic glycopolymers may be capable of optimizing the ability to bind or inhibit proteins in biological processes.
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- Lei Liu
- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.,Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.,Global Institute of Software Technology, No 5. Qingshan Road, Suzhou National Hi-Tech District, Suzhou, 215163, China
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Wang M, Jin HS, Chen XM, Lin BP, Yang H. A sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange click chemistry approach towards main chain liquid crystal polymers bearing sulfate ester groups. Polym Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9py00577c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Here we report a sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange click chemistry approach towards the synthesis of main chain liquid crystal polymers.
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- Meng Wang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research
- Institute of Advanced Materials
- Southeast University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research
- Institute of Advanced Materials
- Southeast University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research
- Institute of Advanced Materials
- Southeast University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research
- Institute of Advanced Materials
- Southeast University
- Nanjing
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research
- Institute of Advanced Materials
- Southeast University
- Nanjing
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Yang X, Chen S, Luo H, Xu H, Chen S. Self-organization of cholesterol-side-chain liquid crystalline polymers by tailoring the main chain structure and flexible spacer length. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8nj06168h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Liquid crystal polymers with cholesterol side-chains formed different smectic A phases under the influence of the main-chain structure and flexible spacer length.
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- Xiwen Yang
- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
- Xiangtan 411105
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
- Xiangtan 411105
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- State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy
- Central South University
- Changsha
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
- Xiangtan 411105
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
- Xiangtan 411105
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Li L, Zhou F, Li Y, Chen X, Zhang Z, Zhou N, Zhu X. Cooperation of Amphiphilicity and Smectic Order in Regulating the Self-Assembly of Cholesterol-Functionalized Brush-Like Block Copolymers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:11034-11041. [PMID: 30133294 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Nanoparticle morphology significantly affects the application of nanometer-scale materials. Understanding nanoparticle formation mechanisms and directing morphological control in nanoparticle self-assembly processes have received wide attention. Herein, a series of brush-like amphiphilic liquid crystalline block copolymers, PChEMA m- b-POEGMA n, containing cholesteryl mesogens with different hydrophobic/hydrophilic block ratios were designed and synthesized. The self-assembly behaviors of the resulting PChEMA m- b-POEGMA n block copolymers in different solvents (tetrahydrofuran/H2O, 1,4-dioxane/H2O, and N, N-dimethylformamide) were investigated in detail. Desirable micellar aggregates with well-organized architectures, including short cylindrical micelles, nanofibers, fringed platelets, and ellipsoidal vesicles with smectic micellar cores, were observed in 1,4-dioxane/H2O with an increasing hydrophobic block ratio. Although both amphiphilicity and smectic order governed the self-assembly, these two factors were differently balanced in the different solvents. This unique supramolecular system provides a new strategy for the design of advanced functional nanomaterials with tunable morphologies.
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- Lishan Li
- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering , Sichuan University , Chengdu 610065 , China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , China
- Global Institute of Software Technology , No. 5, Qingshan Road , Suzhou National Hi-Tech District, Suzhou 215163 , China
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Han XH, Yang XW, Chen S, Luo H, Zhang D, Zhang HL. Multiple Effects Tailoring the Self-organization Behaviors of Triphenylene Side-chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers via Changing the Spacer Length. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-018-2108-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Huang ZH, Zhou YY, Wang ZM, Li Y, Zhang W, Zhou NC, Zhang ZB, Zhu XL. Recent advances of CuAAC click reaction in building cyclic polymer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-017-1902-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Zhou F, Zhang Z, Jiang G, Lu J, Chen X, Li Y, Zhou N, Zhu X. Self-assembly of amphiphilic macrocycles containing polymeric liquid crystal grafts in solution. Polym Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6py00545d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Amphiphilic macrocycles containing polymeric liquid crystal side-chains are synthesized facilely, and the topological effects on their solution self-assembly behaviors are investigated, compared with their linear analogues.
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- Feng Zhou
- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering
- Sichuan University
- Chengdu 610065
- P. R. China
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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- State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application
- College of Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Soochow University
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Mu B, Li Q, Li X, Pan S, Zhou Y, Fang J, Chen D. Cyclic polymers with pendant triphenylene discogens: convenient synthesis and topological effect on thermotropic liquid crystal behavior and fluorescence enhancement. Polym Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6py01135g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cyclic topological constraint suppresses columnar ordering while showing remarkably enhanced fluorescence as a supplement of aggregation-induced emission (AIE).
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- Bin Mu
- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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- Center for Materials Analysis
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University
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