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ArticleNature communications2022

Mechanically robust supramolecular polymer co-assemblies.

Julien Sautaux, Franziska Marx, Ilja Gunkel, Christoph Weder, Stephen Schrettl

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Julien SautauxAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Franziska MarxAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7633-1901
Ilja GunkelAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5738-5309
Christoph WederAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland. christoph.weder@unifr.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7183-1790
Stephen SchrettlAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland. stephen.schrettl@unifr.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-3089

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 200020_172619
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Supramolecular polymers are formed through non-covalent, directional interactions between monomeric building blocks. The assembly of these materials is reversible, which enables functions such as healing, repair, or recycling. However, supramolecular polymers generally fail to match the mechanical properties of conventional commodity plastics. Here we demonstrate how strong, stiff, tough, and healable materials can be accessed through the combination of two metallosupramolecular polymers with complementary mechanical properties that feature the same metal-ligand complex as binding motif. Co-assembly yields materials with micro-phase separated hard and soft domains and the mechanical properties can be tailored by simply varying the ratio of the two constituents. On account of toughening and physical cross-linking effects, this approach affords materials that display higher strength, toughness, or failure strain than either metallosupramolecular polymer alone. The possibility to combine supramolecular building blocks in any ratio further permits access to compositionally graded objects with a spatially modulated mechanical behavior.

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PMCPMC8766479

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