Phenolic Building Blocks for the Assembly of Functional Materials

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  • Md. Arifur Rahim
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science, and Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
  • Samantha L. Kristufek
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science, and Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
  • Shuaijun Pan
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science, and Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
  • Joseph J. Richardson
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science, and Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
  • Frank Caruso
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science, and Technology, and the Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Phenolic materials have long been known for their use in inks, wood coatings, and leather tanning. However, there has recently been a renewed interest in engineering advanced materials from phenolic building blocks. The intrinsic properties of phenolic compounds, such as metal chelation, hydrogen bonding, pH responsiveness, redox potentials, radical scavenging, polymerization, and light absorbance, have made them a distinct class of structural motifs for the synthesis of functional materials. Materials prepared from phenolic compounds often retain many of these useful properties with synergistic effects in applications ranging from catalysis to biomedicine. This Review provides an overview of the diverse functional materials that can be prepared from natural and synthetic phenolic building blocks, as well as their applications.</jats:p>

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