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J Inorg Organomet Polym (2013) 23:24–40 DOI 10.1007/s10904-012-9757-x REVIEW Polymer Gels Constructed Through Metal–Ligand Coordination • • ´ ´ ´ Jeremy Brassinne Charles-Andre Fustin Jean-Franc¸ois Gohy Received: 26 June 2012 / Accepted: 5 September 2012 / Published online: 19 September 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract In the past few years, combining supramolec- 1 Introduction ular and macromolecular chemistries has become of great interest to yield dynamic and responsive assemblies with Introduced by the Nobel Prize Lehn [ 1, 2], supramolecular self-restructuring abilities. Among them, polymer net- chemistry, defined as ‘‘chemistry of molecular assemblies works, that are held together by one or a combination of and intermolecular bonds’’ [2] or more colloquially as supramolecular interactions, offer new possibilities to sci- ‘‘chemistry beyond the molecule’’ [3, 4], is now a major entists for the creation of artificial materials with self- field in chemical sciences [5–8]. Lying beyond the classical healing properties. In particular, incorporating coordination molecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry is based on complexes into polymeric architectures opens up the pos- molecular interactions, i.e. non-covalent associations of sibility of imparting the physicochemical properties of both two or more chemical entities [ 1–4, 9, 10]. Because all partners to the resulting material. Here, recent achieve- these intermolecular secondary interactions are generally ments in the field of supramolecular gels that are formed weaker than covalent bonds, they are kinetical