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Everyday life requires polymeric materials. Scientists have focused on polymers made of rigid aromatic frameworks since they exhibit distinctive electronic/optical characteristics, heat resistance, and mechanical benefits.
Polymers composed of aromatic frameworks are attracting increasing attention for the construction of highly functional materials. So far, their application has been limited by their virtual insolubility in organic solvents and water. Now, researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a new, environmentally benign methodology for the water-solubilization of such polymers utilizing bent aromatic amphiphiles. The solubilization enables not only structural and spectroscopic analysis of the polymers but also their facile processing into various thin films.