Coil-Ring-Coil Block Copolymers as Building Blocks for Supramolecular Hollow Cylindrical Brushes.

Solvent-induced self-assembly of oligomer-substituted shape-persistent macrocycles leads to the formation of cylindrical aggregates, which have been fully characterized in solution. These aggregates, bound by nonspecific interactions, can be described as supramolecular hollow polymer brushes.