Zhu Tianyu, Zhang Jiuyang, Tang Chuanbing
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Biomedical Research, Southeast University, 211189, Nanjing, PR China.
Trends Chem. 2020 Mar;2(3):227-240. doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2019.12.004. Epub 2019 Dec 27.
Since the middle of the 20th century, metallopolymers have represented a standalone subfield with a beneficial combination of functionality from inorganic metal centers and processability from the organic polymeric frameworks. Metallo-polyelectrolytes are a new class of soft materials that showcase fundamentally different properties from neutral polymers due to their intrinsically ionic behaviors. This review describes recent trends in metallo-polyelectrolytes and discusses emerging properties and challenges, as well as future directions from a perspective of macromolecular architectures. The correlations between macromolecular architectures and properties are discussed from copolymer self-assembly, metallo-enzymes for biomedical applications, metallo-peptides for catalysis, crosslinked networks, and metallogels.
自20世纪中叶以来，金属聚合物已成为一个独立的子领域，它兼具无机金属中心的功能性和有机聚合物骨架的可加工性。金属聚电解质是一类新型软材料，由于其固有的离子行为，它们展现出与中性聚合物截然不同的性质。本文综述了金属聚电解质的最新研究趋势，讨论了其新兴性质、挑战以及从大分子结构角度出发的未来发展方向。从共聚物自组装、生物医学应用的金属酶、催化用金属肽、交联网络和金属凝胶等方面讨论了大分子结构与性质之间的相关性。
