Abstract
The blending of non-covalent interactions with traditional polymer chemistry can lead to a novel class of smart (responsive) materials allowing a new access to high-tech applications, such as switchable camouflage coatings or anticorrosive surfaces. An overview on supramolecular polymer chemistry will be presented in combination with a discussion of several potential systems, based mainlyon hydrogen bonding and metaf-ligand interactions. For a particular system (terpyrldlne-metal systems), the "swltchable"
properties are discussed In detail.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 28-34 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | European Coatings Journal |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |