Functional materials using supramolecular polymer scaffolds

POLY 271

Stuart J. Rowan, stuart.rowan@case.edu, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2100 Adelbert Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106-7202
The ability to control the organization of molecules through supramolecular interactions offers a way of tuning the nano-scale structural features of a resulting polymeric material. Subsequently, the ability to do this in a controlled and predictable manner offers the researcher a powerful tool in tailoring the properties of such systems. This ability to control the assembling polymer architecture makes such an approach an attractive one for accessing scaffold structures which allow tailored positioning of functional groups. In this presentation we will discuss some of our work aimed at the development of supramolecular aggregates which can act as scaffolds for functional moieties.