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We report the design, synthesis and characterization of new benzothiadiazole- and pyrrole-based copolymers whose solubility and bandgap drastically change after thermal treatment of their thin films.

A conformationally flexible, generation-2,3 poly(aryl ether) dendrimer favors quantitative cascade fluorescence resonance energy transfer without the appearance of undesired chromophore self-quenching interactions such as excimer formation.

A new micellar system capable of selective release of its contents under mildly acidic conditions is described.

A cyclocopolymer containing pyrrolidinopyridine pendant groups was dendronized with polyester dendrons terminated with long alkyl chain ends and the microenvironment created by the dendrons was used to catalyze the difficult esterification of a tertiary alcohol with pivalic anhydride.

An acid catalysed rearrangement that transforms a bicyclic lactone into a phenolic carboxylic acid has been tested for potential use in chemically amplified microlithographic imaging.

A new approach to the controlled synthesis of multicomponent dendrimers is presented, in which three oligonucleotide–dendron conjugates were synthesized using solid phase techniques and hybridized to create a second generation polyester dendrimer with DNA as a core and bearing two types of peripheral functional groups.

Copolymers containing Ru(bpy)₃ and coumarin-2 chromophores prepared using both grafting and copolymerization approaches exhibit Förster-type energy-transfer efficiencies ranging from 70% to above 98%.

A new class of porphyrin containing hyperbranched polymers has been prepared via proton-transfer polymerisation utilising an A₂ + B₃ approach, thus providing an accelerated entry into the construction of branched multiporphyrin architectures.