Supramolecular polymer

The term ‘polymer’ refers to large molecules whose structure is composed of multiple repeating units and the prefix ‘supra’ meaning ‘beyond the limits of’. Supramolecular polymers are a new category of polymers that can potentially be used for material applications beyond the limits of conventional polymers. By definition, supramolecular polymers are polymeric arrays of monomeric units that are connected by reversible and highly directional secondary interactions–that is, non-covalent bonds. These non-covalent interactions include van der Waals interaction, hydrogen bonding, π-π stacking, metal coordination, halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding, and host–guest interaction.[1] The direction and strength of the interactions are precisely tuned so that the array of molecules behaves as a polymer (that is, it behaves in a way that can be described by the theories of polymer physics) in dilute and concentrated solution, as well as in the bulk.[2]

In conventional polymers, monomeric units are linked by strong covalent bonds and have excellent properties as materials; however, high temperatures and pressures are typically required for processing due to polymer entanglement in the highly viscous melt. Supramolecular polymers combine good material properties with low-viscosity melts that are easy to handle. Additionally, some supramolecular polymers have unique characteristics,[3][4][5] such as the ability to self-heal fractures. Although covalent polymers can be recycled, their strong covalent bonds never disintegrate, and go on to negatively affect the environment as plastic wastes. Thus, supramolecular polymers are increasingly getting attention[6] because of their potential for the design of responsive, adaptive, self-healing, and environmentally friendly materials.[7][8]

History
Monomeric motifs and types of interactions used for the preparation of supramolecular polymers

Modern concept of polymers credited to Hermann Staudinger, who substantiated the existence of covalently linked ultralong molecules in 1920, which he called as macromolecules. The preamble of the field of supramolecular polymers can be considered dye-aggregates and host-guest complexes.[9] In early 19thcentury, scientists working in the field of pigments have noticed certain dye aggregates that may formed via ‘a special kind of polymerization’, however no theory was proposed. After the establishment of the field of supramolecular chemistry and after the award of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1987 to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Charles J. Pedersen, chemists started to design and study larger assembled structures from small molecules. In 1988, Takuzo Aida, a Japanese polymer chemist, reported the concept of cofacial assembly wherein the amphiphilic porphyrin monomers are connected via van der Waals interaction forming one-dimensional architectures in solution, which can be considered as a prototype of supramolecular polymers.[10] In the same year 1988, James.D.Wuest introduced one-dimensional aggregates based on hydrogen bonding interaction in the crystalline state.[11] With a different strategyusing hydrogen bonds, Jean M. J. Fréchet showed in 1989 that mesogenic molecules with carboxylic acid and pyridyl motifs, upon mixing in bulk, heterotropically dimerize to form a stable liquid crystalline structure.[12] In 1990, Jean-Marie Lehn showed that this strategy can be expanded to form a new category of polymers, which he called “liquid crystalline supramolecular polymer” using complementary triple hydrogen bonding motifs in bulk.[13] In 1993, M. Reza Ghadiri reported a nanotubular supramolecular polymer where a b-sheet-forming macrocyclic peptide monomer assembled together via multiple hydrogen bonding between adjacent macrocycles.[14] In 1994, Anselm. C. Griffin showed an amorphous supramolecular material using a single hydrogen bond between a homotropic molecules having carboxylic acid and pyridine termini.[15] The idea to make mechanically strong polymeric materials by 1D supramolecular association of small molecules requires a high association constant between the repeating building blocks. In 1997, E.W. “Bert” Meijer reported a telechelic monomer with ureidopyrimidinone termini as a “self-complementary” quadruple hydrogen bonding motif and demonstrated that the resulting supramolecular polymer in chloroform shows a temperature-dependent viscoelastic property in solution.[16] This is the first demonstration that supramolecular polymers, when sufficiently mechanically robust, are physically entangled in solution.

Formation mechanisms

Monomers undergoing supramolecular polymerization are considered to be in equilibrium with the growing polymers, and thermodynamic factors therefore dominate the system.[17] However, when the constituent monomers are connected via strong and multivalent interactions, a “metastable” kinetic state can dominate the polymerization. An externally supplied energy, in the form of heat in most cases, can transform the “metastable” state into a thermodynamically stable polymer. A clear understanding of multiple pathways exist in supramolecular polymerization is still under debate, however, the concept of “pathway complexity”, introduced by E.W. “Bert” Meijer, shed a light on the kinetic behavior of supramolecular polymerization.[18] Thereafter, many dedicated scientists are expanding the scope of “pathway complexity” because it can produce a variety of interesting assembled structures from the same monomeric units. Along this line of kinetically controlled processes, supramolecular polymers having “stimuli-responsive” [19] and “thermally bisignate” characteristics is also possible.[20]

In conventional covalent polymerization, two models based on step-growth and chain-growth mechanisms are operative. Nowadays, a similar subdivision is acceptable for supramolecular polymerization; isodesmic also known as equal-K model (step-growth mechanism) and cooperative or nucleation-elongation model (chain-growth mechanism). A third category is seeded supramolecular polymerization, which can be considered as a special case of chain-growth mechanism.

Step-growth supramolecular polymerization
Schematics of "pathway-complexity" and "chain-growth" mechanisms operative in supramolecular polymerization

Supramolecular equivalent of step-growth mechanism is commonly known as isodesmic or equal-K model (K represents the total binding interaction between two neighboring monomers). In isodesmic supramolecular polymerization, no critical temperature or concentration of monomers is required for the polymerization to occur and the association constant between polymer and monomer is independent of the polymer chain length. Instead, the length of the supramolecular polymer chains rises as the concentration of monomers in the solution increases, or as the temperature decreases. In conventional polycondensation, the association constant is usually large that leads to a high degree of polymerization; however, a byproduct is observed. In isodesmic supramolecular polymerization, due to non-covalent bonding, the association between monomeric units is weak, and the degree of polymerization strongly depends on the strength of interaction, i.e. multivalent interaction between monomeric units. For instance, supramolecular polymers consisting of bifunctional monomers having single hydrogen bonding donor/acceptor at their termini usually end up with low degree of polymerization, however those with quadrupole hydrogen bonding, as in the case of ureidopyrimidinone motifs, result in a high degree of polymerization. In ureidopyrimidinone-based supramolecular polymer, the experimentally observed molecular weight at semi-dilute concentrations is in the order of 106 Dalton and the molecular weight of the polymer can be controlled by adding mono-functional chain-cappers.

Chain-growth supramolecular polymerization

Conventional chain-growth polymerization involves at least two phases; initiation and propagation, while and in some cases termination and chain transfer phases also occur. Chain-growth supramolecular polymerization in a broad sense involves two distinct phases; a less favored nucleation and a favored propagation. In this mechanism, after the formation of a nucleus of a certain size, the association constant is increased, and further monomer addition becomes more favored, at which point the polymer growth is initiated. Long polymer chains will form only above a minimum concentration of monomer and below a certain temperature. However, to realize a covalent analogue of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization, a challenging prerequisite is the design of appropriate monomers that can polymerize only by the action of initiators. Recently one example of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization with “living” characteristics is demonstrated.[21] In this case, a bowl-shaped monomer with amide-appended side chains form a kinetically favored intramolecular hydrogen bonding network and does not spontaneously undergo supramolecular polymerization at ambient temperatures.[22] However, an N-methylated version of the monomer serves as an initiator by opening the intramolecular hydrogen bonding network for the supramolecular polymerization, just like ring-opening covalent polymerization. The chain end in this case remains active for further extension of supramolecular polymer and hence chain-growth mechanism allows for the precise control of supramolecular polymer materials.

Seeded supramolecular polymerization

This is a special category of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization, where the monomer nucleates only in an early stage of polymerization to generate “seeds” and becomes active for polymer chain elongation upon further addition of a new batch of monomer. A secondary nucleation is suppressed in most of the case and thus possible to realize a narrow polydispersity of the resulting supramolecular polymer. In 2007, Ian Manners and Mitchell A. Winnik introduced this concept using a polyferrocenyldimethylsilane–polyisoprene diblock copolymer as the monomer, which assembles into cylindrical micelles.[23] When a fresh feed of the monomer is added to the micellar “seeds” obtained by sonication, the polymerization starts in a living polymerization manner. They named this method as crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) and is applicable to construct micron-scale supramolecular anisotropic structures in 1D–3D. A conceptually different seeded supramolecular polymerization is showed by Kazunori Sugiyasu in a porphyrin-based monomer bearing amide-appended long alkyl chains.[24] At low temperature, this monomer preferentially forms spherical J-aggregates while fibrous H-aggregates at higher temperature. By adding a sonicated mixture of the J-aggregates (“seeds”) into a concentrated solution of the J-aggregate particles, long fibers can be prepared via living seeded supramolecular polymerization. Frank Würthner achieved similar seeded supramolecular polymerization of amide functionalized perylene bisimide as monomer.[25] Importantly, the seeded supramolecular polymerization is also applicable to prepare supramolecular block copolymers.

Examples of supramolecular polymers

Based on hydrogen bonding interaction

Monomers capable of forming single, double, triple or quadruple hydrogen bonding has been utilized for making supramolecular polymers, and increased association of monomers obviously possible when monomers have maximum number of hydrogen bonding donor/acceptor motifs. For instance, ureidopyrimidinone-based monomer with self-complementary quadruple hydrogen bonding termini polymerized in solution, accordingly with the theory of conventional polymers and displayed a distinct viscoelastic nature at ambient temperatures.

Based on π-π interactionstacking

Monomers with aromatic motifs such as bis(merocyanine), oligo(para-phenylenevinylene) (OPV), perylene bisimide (PBI) dye, cyanine dye, corannulene and nano-graphene derivatives have been employed to prepare supramolecular polymers. In some cases, hydrogen bonding side chains appended onto the core aromatic motif help to hold the monomer strongly in the supramolecular polymer. A notable system in this category is a nanotubular supramolecular polymer formed by the supramolecular polymerization of amphiphilic hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) derivatives.[26] Generally, nanotubes are categorized as 1D objects morphologically, however, their walls adopt a 2D geometry and therefore require a different design strategy.[27] HBC amphiphiles in polar solvents solvophobically assemble into a 2D bilayer membrane, which roles up into a helical tape or a nanotubular polymer. Conceptually similar amphiphilic design based on cyanine dye and zinc chlorin dye also polymerize in water resulting in nanotubular supramolecular polymers.[28][29]

Based on host-guest interaction

A variety of supramolecular polymers can be synthesized by using monomers with host-guest complementary binding motifs, such as crown ethers/ammonium ions, cucurbiturils/viologens, calixarene/viologens, cyclodextrins/adamantane derivatives, and pillar arene/imidazolium derivatives [30–33].[30][31][32] When the monomers are “heteroditopic”, supramolecular copolymers results, provided the monomers does not homopolymerize. Akira Harada was one of the firstwhorecognize the importance of combining polymers and cyclodextrins.[33] Feihe Huang showed an example of supramolecular alternating copolymer from two heteroditopic monomers carrying both crown ether and ammonium ion termini.[34] Takeharo Haino demonstrated an extreme example of sequence control in supramolecular copolymer, where three heteroditopic monomers are arranged in an ABC sequence along the copolymer chain.[35] The design strategy utilizing three distinct binding interactions; ball-and-socket (calix[5]arene/C60), donor-acceptor (bisporphyrin/trinitrofluorenone), and Hamilton’s H-bonding interactions is the key to attain a high orthogonality to form an ABC supramolecular terpolymer.

Chirality

Stereochemical information of a chiral monomer can be expressed in a supramolecular polymer.[36] Helical supramolecular polymer with P-and M-conformation are widely seen, especially those composed of disc-shaped monomers. When the monomers are achiral, both P-and M-helices are formed in equal amounts. When the monomers are chiral, typically due to the presence of one or more stereocenters in the side chains, the diastereomeric relationship between P-and M-helices leads to the preference of one conformation over the other. Typical example is a C3-symmetric disk-shaped chiral monomer that forms helical supramolecular polymers via the “majority rule”. A slight excess of one enantiomer of the chiral monomer resulted in a strong bias to either the right-handed or left-handed helical geometry at the supramolecular polymer level.[37] In this case, a characteristic nonlinear dependence of the anisotropic factor, g, on the enantiomeric excess of a chiral monomer can be generally observed. Like in small molecule based chiral system, chirality of a supramolecular polymer also affected by chiral solvents. Some application such as a catalyst for asymmetric synthesis [38] and circular polarized luminescence are observed in chiral supramolecular polymers too.

Supramolecular copolymers

A copolymer is formed from more than one monomeric species. Advanced polymerization techniques have been established for the preparation of covalent copolymers, however supramolecular copolymers are still in its infancy and is slowly progressing. In recent years, all plausible category of supramolecular copolymers such as random, alternating, block, blocky, or periodic has been demonstrated in a broad sense.[39]

Properties of supramolecular polymers

In the last 30 years, the field of supramolecular polymers has grown into a very important new branch of polymer science. It has attracted numerous research activities in academia and industrial laboratories worldwide. New dynamic materials with a variety of anomalous properties are added to the field of materials engineering. Many applications in sustainability (easy processing and recycling), electronics, and medicine as well as cosmetics have become available.

Reversibility and dynamicity

One of the important properties of supramolecular polymers is their reversible interactions in the monomeric array. When the interaction between monomers are sufficiently strong, interesting material properties can be expected. The thermodynamic stability of a supramolecular polymer can be described using the association constant, Kass. When Kass ≤ 104M−1, the polymeric aggregates are typically small in size and do not show any interesting properties and when Kass≥ 1010 M−1, the supramolecular polymer behaves just like covalent polymers due to the lack of dynamics. So, an optimum Kass = 104–1010M−1need to be attained for producing functional supramolecular polymers. The dynamics and stability of the supramolecular polymers often affect by the influence of additives (e.g. co-solvent or chain-capper). When a good solvent, for instance chloroform, is added to a supramolecular polymer in a poor solvent, for instance heptane, the polymer disassembles. However, in some cases, cosolvents contribute the stabilization/destabilization of supramolecular polymer. For instance, supramolecular polymerization of a hydrogen bonding porphyrin-based monomer in a hydrocarbon solvent containing a minute amount of a hydrogen bond scavenging alcohol shows distinct pathways, i.e. polymerization favored both by cooling as well as heating, and is known as “thermally bisignate supramolecular polymerization”. In another example, minute amounts of molecularly dissolved water molecules in apolar solvents, like methylcyclohexane, become part of the supramolecular polymer at lower temperatures, due to specific hydrogen bonding interaction between the monomer and water.[40]

Self-healing ability

One of the fascinating properties of supramolecular polymers is its ability to self-heal upon fracture occur.[41] A supramolecular rubber based on vitrimers, introduced by Ludwik Leibler, can self-heal simply by pressing the two broken edges of the material together.[42] In this case, fractures occur when hydrogen bonds between monomers in the material are broken; bringing the edges of the fracture together allows the hydrogen bonds to re-form, sealing up the gap. Impressively, the dynamic behavior of the hydrogen bonds does not compromise the properties of the material. High mechanical strength of a material and self-healing ability is generally mutually exclusive. Thus, a glassy material that can self-heal at room temperature remained a challenge until recently. In an elegant design, Takuzo Aida introduced an innovative polymer glass composed of a supramolecularly polymerized oligomeric ether thiourea, which is mechanically robust (e= 1.4 GPa) but can self-heal, even at room temperature, just by a compression at the fractured surfaces.[43] The invention of self-healable polymer glass updated the preconception that only soft rubbery materials can heal.

Examples of hydrogen-bonding based self-healing 'supramolecular rubber' (a) and 'polymer glass' (b).

Another strategy uses a bivalent poly(isobutylene)s (PIBs) with barbituric acid functionalized at head and tail.[44] Multiple hydrogen bonding existed between the carbonyl group and amide group of barbituric acid enable it to form a supramolecular network. In this case, the snipped small PIBs-based disks can recover itself from mechanical damage after several-hour contact at room temperature.

Covalent polymers containing coordination complexes also have studied for making self-healing materials. Taking advantage of coordination interactions between catechol and ferric ions, researchers developed pH-controlled self-healing supramolecular polymers.[45] The formation of mono-, bis- and triscatehchol-Fe3+ complexes can be manipulated by pH, of which the bis- and triscatehchol-Fe3+ complexes show elastic moduli as well as self-healing capacity. For example, the triscatehchol-Fe3+ can restore its cohesiveness and shape after being torn. Chain-folding polyimide and pyrenyl-end-capped chains give rise to supramolecular networks.[46]

Optoelectronic property

To achieve the light-to-charge conversion is the prerequisite step in artificial photosynthesis systems.[47] By incorporating electron donors and electron acceptors into the supramolecular polymers, a number of artificial systems, including photosynthesis system, can be constructed. Owing to the existence of more than one interactions (π-π interaction, hydrogen bonding interaction and the like), electron donor and electron acceptor can be held together in a proper proximity to afford long-lived charge separated states.[47] Then a light-to-charge conversion system with faster photoinduced electron transfer and higher electron-transfer efficiency can be achieved in these artificial polymers.[48][47]

Biocompatible property

It is quite common that biomolecules, such as DNA,[49] protein [50] and the like, come into being through various noncovalent interactions in biological system. Likewise, supramolecular polymers assembles themself via a combination of noncovalent interactions. Such formation manner endows supramolecular polymers with features, being more sensitive to external stimuli and able to render reversibly dynamic changes in structures and functions.[51] By modifying monomeric units of supramolecular polymers with water-soluble pendants, bioactive moieties as well as biomarkers, supramolecular polymers can realize various kinds of functions and applications in biomedical field.[52] At the same time, their reversible and dynamic nature make supramolecular polymers bio-degradable,[53][54] which surmounts hard-to-degrade issue of covalent polymers and makes supramolecular polymers a promising platform for biomedical applications. Being able to degrade in biological environment lowers potential toxicity of polymers to a great extent and therefore, enhances biocompatibility of supramolecular polymers.[55][56]

Potential biomedical applications

With the excellent nature in biodegradation and biocompatibility, supramolecular polymers show great potential in the development of drug delivery, gene transfection and other biomedical applications.[52]

Drug delivery: Multiple cellular stimuli could induce responses in supramolecular polymers.[51][57][52] The dynamic molecular skeletons of supramolecular polymers can be depolymerized when exposing to the external stimuli like pH in vivo. On the basis of this property, supramolecular polymers are capable of being a drug carrier. Making use of hydrogen bonding between nucleobases to induce self-assemble into pH-sensitive spherical micelles.

Gene transfection: Effective and low-toxic nonviral cationic vectors are highly desired in the field of gene therapy.[52] On account of the dynamic and stimuli-responsive properties, supramolecular polymers offer a cogent platform to construct vectors for gene transfection. By combining ferrocene dimer with β-cyclodextrin dimer, a redox-control supramolecular polymers system has been proposed as a vector. In COS-7 cells, this supramolecular polymersic vector can release enclosed DNA upon exposing to hydrogen peroxide and achieve gene transfection.[58]

Supramolecular biomaterials

Supramolecular polymers with specific, directional, tunable and reversible non-covalent interactions should be advantageous for biomaterials as well as biomedical applications.  For instance, the reversible nature of supramolecular polymers can produce biomaterials that can sense and respond to physiological cues, or that mimic the structural and functional aspects of biological signaling. On the basis of their formation mechanisms, supramolecular biomaterials can be broadly classified as: (1) materials prepared from one-dimensional assemblies of molecular stacking motifs as in the case of peptide amphiphiles introduced by Samuel I. Stupp,[59] and (2) materials prepared through chain extension of oligomers or through crosslinking of polymeric precursors by specific supramolecular recognition motifs.[60]

Rationally designed supramolecular polymers-based polymers can simultaneously meet the requirements of aqueous compatibility, bio-degradability, biocompatibility, stimuli-responsiveness and other strict criterion.[52] Consequently, supramolecular polymers can be applied to the biomedical field as a robust system. Other than applications mentioned above, other important and fascinating biomedical applications, like protein delivery,[61][62] bio-imaging and diagnosis[63][64] and tissue engineering,[65][66] are also well developed.

Conceptual expansion of supramolecular polymers

Supramolecular polymerization using unconventional monomers

Over the time, methods for supramolecular polymerization has expanded, and the range of its useable monomers has diversified.  In addition to plethora of molecular motifs, biomolecules such as DNA, DNA nanostructures and proteins as well as inorganic objects as unconventional monomers has recently been investigated for supramolecular polymerization. In all of these cases, monomers are in much higher size, usually several nanometers, and the non-covalent interactions varies from hydrogen bonding, host-guest and metal coordination.[67]  A notable example is Mg2+-assisted multivalent supramolecular polymerization of ATP-responsive biomolecular machines, chaperonine GroEL, resulting in a highly stable protein nanotube.[68]  Importantly, this nanotube shows an ATPase activity and dissociates into short-chain oligomers when treated with ATP because of the opening/closing motions of the constituent GroEL units.

Supramolecular polymerization in unconventional media

Supramolecular polymers usually prepared in solution.  However anomalous polymeric properties can be expected when these polymers are prepared without a conventional organic or aqueous medium. For instance, liquid crystal media may affect the elementary steps of supramolecular polymerization as demonstrated by Takashi Kato in 1998, in the supramolecular crosslinking polymerization of physical gelators, which form a liquid crystal physical gel.[69]  When monomers are designed to be highly affinitive toward the LC media, supramolecular polymerization causes an order-increasing phase transition, resulting in a core-shell columnar LC.[70]  Supramolecular polymers can also be prepared in the solid-state, for instance, a nucleobase-appended telechelic oligomer as a monomer, resulted in the formation of 1D fibers upon cooling from its hot melt. As a new class of materials, supramolecular polymers formed at electrode and at the interface also become available.

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