Helical protein nanotubules are made by using synthetic supramolecular polymers as sacrificial components in an assembly process. The nanotubules mimic cellular scaffolds regulated by competitive ...

"We made a completely new polymer structure," said Northwestern's William Dichtel, the study's corresponding author. "It's similar to chainmail in that it cannot easily rip because each of the ...

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China Key Laboratory of Materials Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, Hubei Key ...

Chemists have unveiled new supramolecular snub cubes—2,712-atom polyhedral assemblies made up of 12 identical helical macrocycles that are held together by 144 weak hydrogen bonds. Snub cubes ...

Key Laboratory of Eco-Functional Polymer Materials of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, P. R. China ...

Inspired by this twisty ladder, researchers at Hiroshima University developed brand-new helical supramolecular polymer chains from chirally twisted macrocyclic monomers. The artificial polymer that ...