Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 Years after the Staudinger Nobel Prize I

1. Front Matter

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2. A Moment of Reflection: Sixty Years After the Nobel Prize for Hermann Staudinger

   • Helmut Ringsdorf

   Pages 1-19

3. Hermann Staudinger and Polymer Research in Freiburg

   • Hans-Joachim Cantow, Rolf Mülhaupt

   Pages 21-37

4. Hermann Staudinger: Aspects of Fame and Memory, Motivation and Impact

   • Gerhard Wegner

   Pages 39-52

5. Staudinger’s Time in Karlsruhe and His Later Relations with Karlsruhe

   • Manfred Wilhelm

   Pages 53-60

6. Why Was the Macromolecular Hypothesis Such a Big Deal?

   • Ulrich W. Suter

   Pages 61-80

7. Courageous Questioning of Established Thinking: The Life and Work of Hermann Staudinger

   • Markus Weber, Guido Deussing

   Pages 81-138

8. Staudinger’s Footprints in Japan During His 30-Day Visit in 1957

   • Akihiro Abe

   Pages 139-150

9. The Years After the Retirement of Hermann Staudinger: Research on Solution Properties in the Physicochemical Group of Walther Burchard

   • Walther Burchard

   Pages 151-154

10. Dynamers: From Supramolecular Polymers to Adaptive Dynamic Polymers

    • Jean-Marie Lehn

    Pages 155-172

11. From Synthetic Macromolecules to Biological-Like Complex Systems

    • Virgil Percec

    Pages 173-197

12. The Wonder of Life in Its Chemical Aspect

    • David A. Tirrell

    Pages 199-210

13. Crosslinking with Hermann Staudinger

    • Fred Wudl

    Pages 211-216

14. Another Important 60th Anniversary

    • Nadrian C. Seeman

    Pages 217-228

15. Coordination-Driven Supramolecular Macromolecules via the Directional Bonding Approach

    • Timothy R. Cook, Peter J. Stang

    Pages 229-248

16. Bridging Polymer Science and Medicine Through Supramolecular Nanoassemblies

    • Horacio Cabral, Kazunori Kataoka

    Pages 249-262

17. Stereochemical Studies at the Herman F. Mark Polymer Research Institute

    • Mark M. Green

    Pages 263-270

18. Mechanically Interlaced and Interlocked Donor–Acceptor Foldamers

    • Carson J. Bruns, J. Fraser Stoddart

    Pages 271-294

19. Probing Macromolecular and Supramolecular Structure, Dynamics, and Function by Magnetic Resonance

    • Hans Wolfgang Spiess

    Pages 295-320

20. Twenty-First Century Polymer Science After Staudinger: The Emergence of Dendrimers/Dendritic Polymers as a Fourth Major Architecture and Window to a New Nano-periodic System

    • Donald A. Tomalia

    Pages 321-389

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• Adaptive dynamic polymers
• Complex polymer architectures
• Donor-acceptor foldamer structure
• Hermann Staudinger
• Hierarchical polymer structures
• Macromolecular science
• Mendable polymers
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953
• Self-assembling dendrons, dendrimers and dendronized polymers
• Virgil Percec

• Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

  Virgil Percec

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