Multilayered supermolecular structures self-assembled from polyelectrolytes and cyclodextrin host–guest complexes

Supermolecular multilayers with high levels of compositional and structural complexities have been fabricated with an example that involves formation of stable host–guest complexes from bolaamphiphiles and cyclodextrins, followed by sequential build-up of multilayered films by these complexes in combination with anionic polystyrene sulfonate polymer chains.