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Synthesis, Self-Assembly, And Material Applications Of Unimolecular Polyviologens, Abigail Delawder
Synthesis, Self-Assembly, And Material Applications Of Unimolecular Polyviologens, Abigail Delawder
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Intellectual Gaps: Synthesis of high molecular weight, unimolecular, and sequence-defined polyviologens; spatiotemporal control over mechanical properties of materials using visible and near-IR light; on-demand, post hoc manipulation of materials
Intellectual Merit: Robust method for synthesizing higher-order polyviologens of distinct molecular weight; control the change in the mechanical properties of polymer-based, crosslinked materials using a wide range of wavelengths of light; degradation of viologen-crosslinked hydrogels
To understand fundamentally how viologens behave within a polymer chain, we needed a better and more efficient way of synthesizing these long chains of polyviologens. As simple as this process looks on paper, the synthesis is …