磺化芳基冠醚是具有高效客体键合能力的一类新型大环主体。通过对磺化冠醚进行官能团修饰，可以拓展磺化冠醚的客体键合能力和自组装性能。本项目设计了三种结构类型的二磺化蒽并冠醚作为研究对象，包括两亲官能团修饰磺化冠醚和桥联二磺化冠醚。采用多种分析方法研究二磺化冠醚同一系列有机阳离子的键合作用、两亲性组装和超分子聚合物的构筑，并研究其可逆成凝、多刺激相应、自修复等材料性能。通过这些研究，最终实现磺化冠醚在材料学上的应用。

Sulfonated aromatic crown ethers have been novel macrocyclic host with highly guest binding ability in supramolecular chemistry. Functional-group-modification on the aromatic rings can dramatically enhance the binding and self-assembly of sulfonated crown ethers. Therefore this program designed three types of modified disulfonated crown ethers bearing anthracene moiety. Various characteristic methods were employed to investigated the host-guest complexation, amphiphilic assembly and construction of supramolecular polymer between these disulfonated crown ethers and cationic guests, which might display interesting materials property like reversible gelation, multistimuli responsive and self-healing. After the systematic research the sulfonated crown ethers would be developed as important macrocyclic compounds to be applied on soft materiasl.