articleJournal of the American Chemical SocietyJan 6, 2022GREEN OA

Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart Materials

QZQi ZhangDQDa‐Hui QuBLBen L. FeringaHTHe Tian

East China University of Science and Technology · University of Groningen

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Abstract

The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and dynamic covalent chemistry offers many approaches to the construction of dynamic polymers and materials that can adapt, respond, repair, and recycle. Within this toolbox, the building blocks based on 1,2-dithiolanes have become an important scaffold, featuring their reversible polymerization mediated by dynamic covalent disulfide bonds, which enables a unique class of dynamic materials at the intersection of supramolecular polymers and adaptable covalent networks. This Perspective aims to explore the dynamic chemistry of 1,2-dithiolanes…

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  • Dynamic covalent chemistry
  • Toolbox
  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Covalent bond
  • Smart material
  • Polymerization
  • Nanotechnology
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