The supramolecular dendritic polymers (supramolecular dendrimers) originate from two evolutionary changes in polymer chain structure with combining concepts of dendritic chain and supramolecules. Therefore
supramolecular dendrimers have novel structure and unique properties. Supramolecular dendrimers are usually self-assemblied via non- covalent interactions with building blocks
so called core
branching units and peripheral functional groups. And the higher ordered structure like liquid crystal phases or hexagonal columns are formed by further self-organization of the supramolecular dendrimer chains. Herein
supramolecular dendrimers can be roughly classified into several types: hydrogen-bonded
metal-coordinated
π-π stacked
ionic-bonded
topological
and hybrid with two above types. This tutorial review briefly summarizes the synthesis
structure and aggregation of the emerging supramolecular dendrimers