Functional Polymeric Materials: Complexing Amphiphiles as Structure-Inducing Elements

摘要

Self-assembly of polymeric comb-shaped supramolecules is a powerful tool to prepare functional materials. Enhanced conductivity due to hexagonal self-organization of conducting polyaniline and polarized photoluminance in solid-state films of rodlike poly(2,5-pyridinediyl) obtained by removing hydrogen-bonded side chains from the aligned thermotropic smectic phase are two examples. Hierarchically structured materials are formed when the self-organization of block copolymers is combined with that of comb-shaped supramolecules. These form the basis for tunable nanoporous membranes, nano-objects and materials with anisotropic properties such as tridirectional proton conductivity.