Macromol. Rapid Commun. 4/2008

Cover: 20 years after Helmut Ringsdorf published his famous review article on self‐organized polymer systems asking for the future adventures in macromolecular chemistry this special issue allows promising young polymer scientists to describe their concepts of the next generation polymers. The publications comprised herein deal with the self‐assembly of macromolecules whose secondary or tertiary structure formation may serve to solve distinct structural and functional problems.