Yan Xia & Masahiko Yamaguchi 
Ladder Polymers [PDF ebook] 
Synthesis, Properties, Applications, and Perspectives

Preface
Introduction
Conjugated, Aromatic Ladder Polymers: From Precision Synthesis to Single Chain Spectroscopy and Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Graphene Nanoribbons as Ladder Polymers-Synthetic Challenges and Components of Future Electronics
Processing of Conjugated Ladder Polymer
Multiporphyrin arrays: from biomimetics to functional materials
Ladder Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs)
Catalytic Arene-Norbornene Annulation (CANAL) Polymerization for the Synthesis of Rigid Ladder Polymers
Simultaneous Growth in Two Dimensions: a Key to Synthetic 2D Polymers
Ladderphanes and Related Ladder Polymers
Ladder Polysiloxanes
DNA as a Ladder Polymer, from the Basics to Structured Nanomaterials
Twisted Ladder Polymers: Dynamic Properties of Cylindrical Double-Helix Oligomers with Axial Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Group
Coordination Ladder Polymers: Helical Metal Strings
Epilogue

Yan Xia received his B.Sc. from Peking University (2002), M.Sc. from Mc Master University (2005), and Ph.D. from Caltech (2010). Following his Ph D, he worked at Dow chemical company for 1.5 years and then postdoc at MIT. He joined the chemistry faculty at Stanford in 2013 and was promoted to associate professor in 2020. His research interest lies in the design, synthesis, and manipulation of organic materials and polymers, driven by new synthetic capability, rational molecular design, and curiosity.
Masahiko Yamaguchi received his Ph D degree (1982) from The University of Tokyo under the guidance of Professor T. Mukaiyama. He joined Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1982 as assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1985. From 1987 to 1988, he worked as a post doctorate fellow at Yale university with Professor S. Danishefsky. He moved to Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University in 1991. In 1997, he was appointed as full professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Tohoku University. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists in 1986, the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan in 2007, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2016. Since 2020, he is Emeritus Professor of Tohoku University.
Tien-Yau Luh obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago and did his postdoc at the University of Minnesota. He began his academic career at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1976, moved to National Taiwan University in 1988, retired in 2016 and reappointed as Distinguished Chair Professor. He has authored 300 publications, received numerous awards in Taiwan and a JSPS fellow in Japan, served as a member of Advisory Boards of several prestigious chemistry journals such as Chem Commun., Chem Eur. J., Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Lett. etc.