Acknowledgements The authors thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, SPP 1568),
the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI, technolgy area HTE) and the Fonds der chemischen Industrie
(FCI) (scholarship for S.B.) for financial support.
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the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI, technolgy area HTE) and the Fonds der chemischen Industrie
(FCI) (scholarship for S.B.) for financial support.
References
1. Brunsveld L, Folmer BJB, Meijer EW, Sijbesma RP (2001) Supramolecular polymers. Chem
Rev 101:4071–4097
2. Lehn JM (1994) Supramolecular chemistry. Proc Natl Sci Acad USA 106:915–922
3. ten Cate AT, Sijbesma RP (2003) Coils, rods and rings in hydrogen-bonded supramolecular
polymers. Macromol Rapid Commun 23:1094–1112
4. Kastner U (2001) The impact of rheological modifiers on water-borne coatings. Coll Surf
183:805–821
5. Lehn JM, Meric R, Vigneron JP, Cesario M, Guilhem J, Pascard C, Asfari Z, Vicens J (1995)
Binding of acetylcholine and other quaternary ammonium cations by sulfonated calixarenes.
Crystal structure of a [choline-tetrasulfonated calix[4]arene] complex. Supramol Chem
5:97–103
6. Hinderberger D, Schmelz O, Rehahn M, Jeschke G (2004) Electrostatic site attachment of
divalent counterions to rodlike ruthenium(II) coordination polymers characterized by EPR
spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed 43:4616–4621
7. Schmatloch S, van den Berg AMJ, Alexeev AS, Hofmeier H, Schubert US (2003) Soluble
high-molecular-mass poly(ethylene oxide)s via self-organization. Macromolecules
36:9943–9949
8. South CR, Burd C, Weck M (2007) Modular and dynamic functionalization of polymeric
scaffolds. Acc Chem Res 40:63–74
9. Whittell GR, Hager MD, Schubert US (2011) Functional soft materials from metallopolymers
and metallosupramolecular polymers. Manners I. Nat Mater 10:176–188
10. Weng WG, Beck JB, Jamieson AM, Rowan SJ (2006) Understanding the mechanism of
gelation and stimuli-responsive nature of a class of metallo-supramolecular gels. J Am Chem
Soc 128:11663–11672
11. Cordier P, Tournilhac F, Soulie ´-Ziakovic C, Leibler L (2008) Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly. Nature 451:977–980
12. Kitagawa S, Uemura K (2005) Dynamic porous properties of coordination polymers inspired
by hydrogen bonds. Chem Soc Rev 34:109–119
13. Montarnal D, Cordier P, Soulie ´-Ziakovic C, Tournilhac F, Leibler L (2008) Synthesis of selfhealing supramolecular rubbers from fatty acid derivates, diethylene triamine, and urea. J
Polym Sci A Polym Chem 46:7925–7936
14. Montarnal D, Tournilhac F, Hidalgo M, Couturier J-L, Leibler L (2009) Versatile one-pot
synthesis of supramolecular plastics and self-healing rubbers. J Am Chem Soc
131:7966–7967
15. Yuan YC, Yin T, Rong MZ, Zhang MQ (2008) Self healing in polymers and polymer
composites. Concepts, realization and outlook: a review. Express Polym Lett 2:238–250
16. Zhang Y, Broekhuis AA, Picchioni F (2009) Thermally self-healing polymeric materials: the
next step to recycling thermoset polymers? Macromolecules 42:1906–1912
17. Chen X, Dam MA, Ono K, Mal A, Shen H, Nutt SR, Sheran K, Wudl F (2002) A thermally
re-mendable cross-linked polymeric material. Science 295:1698–1702
18. Chen X, Wudl F, Mal AK, Shen H, Nutt SR (2003) New thermally remendable highly crosslinked polymeric materials. Macromolecules 36:1802–1807
252
B. Sandmann et al.