Beijing Key Laboratory of Lignocellulosic Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
Chempluschem. 2020 Jun;85(6):1190-1199. doi: 10.1002/cplu.202000192.
In the past decade, chemical-fuel-driven processes have been integrated with synthetic self-assembled systems, in which both the formation and properties can be carefully controlled. This strategy can drive systems far away from equilibrium, tailor the lifetime window of transient self-assembled systems, thus holding promise for future smart, adaptive, self-regulated, and life-like systems. By judging whether the building blocks or transient self-assembled systems participate in the fuel-to-waste conversion, the reported systems can be divided into two classes: dissipative self-assembly and self-assembly under dissipative conditions. Among these systems, the utilization of macromolecular building blocks to design non-equilibrium self-assemblied systems is becoming common. Macromolecular systems capable of dissipating energy with a programmed time domain have found widespread application, and have therefore been an active field of scientific inquiry. This Minireview aims to highlight the recent progress and opportunities of chemical-fuel-driven assembly in macromolecules. We envision that chemical-fuel-driven approach will play an increasingly important role in polymer science in the near future.
在过去的十年中，化学燃料驱动的过程已经与合成自组装系统相结合，在这些系统中，形成和性质都可以被仔细控制。这种策略可以使系统远离平衡，调整瞬态自组装系统的寿命窗口，从而为未来的智能、自适应、自我调节和类生命系统提供了希望。根据构建块或瞬态自组装系统是否参与燃料到废物的转化，可以将报道的系统分为两类：耗散自组装和耗散条件下的自组装。在这些系统中，利用大分子构建块来设计非平衡自组装系统变得越来越普遍。具有程序化时域的能量耗散能力的大分子系统已经得到了广泛的应用，因此成为了科学研究的一个活跃领域。这篇综述旨在强调化学燃料驱动的大分子组装的最新进展和机遇。我们设想，在不久的将来，化学燃料驱动的方法将在聚合物科学中发挥越来越重要的作用。
