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Chenxiao Xiong1, Meiran Xie1, Ruyi Sun1

  • 1East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China.

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
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host-guest interactionsmorphologiesreversible disassembly-reassemblysupramolecular polymer

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