Multifunctional Metallosupramolecular Materials

摘要

The development of new polymer materials, which exhibit significantly enhanced mechanical and thermal properties, offer new functions such as adaptability and self-healing capability, and are easy to manufacture and process will enable numerous applications that are vital to the Army and other DoD branches. This research reported herein outlines the development of new metallo-supramolecular polymers that are the basis of (1) high temperature stable materials, and (2) photo and thermal responsive re-healable systems (3) mechanical stable light emitting materials. These interrelated thrusts exploit the noncovalent interactions between metals and macromonomers based on the bis- (benzimidazolyl)pyridine (Bip) ligand. The properties of the resulting self- assembled polymers depend on the nature of the non-covalent self-assembly process and the nature of the macromonomer and can be readily tailored.