Engineering nanostructured materials using polyphenol-functionalized polymers

Abstract

The assembly of nanostructured materials with tunable properties is of growing interest across fundamental research and industrial applications. Polyphenol-functionalized polymers, which integrate phenolic moieties within polymer backbones, have emerged as versatile building blocks for engineering nanostructured materials with controlled size, morphology, composition, and functionality. Owing to the chemistry of polyphenols, polyphenol-functionalized polymers enable diverse assembly pathways through covalent and noncovalent interactions with metal ions, small molecules, macromolecules, and nano/microstructures, allowing fine control over the physicochemical properties of the resulting materi..