This is a special category of chain-growth supramolecular polymerization, where the monomer nucleates only in an early stage of polymerization to generate "seeds" and becomes active for polymer chain elongation upon further addition of a new batch of monomer.  A secondary nucleation is suppressed in most of the case and thus possible to realize a narrow polydispersity of the resulting supramolecular polymer.  In 2007, Ian Manners and Mitchell A. Winnik introduced this concept using a polyferrocenyldimethylsilane–polyisoprene diblock copolymer as the monomer, which assembles into cylindrical micelles.  When a fresh feed of the monomer is added to the micellar "seeds" obtained by sonication, the polymerization starts in a living polymerization manner. They named this method as crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) and is applicable to construct micron-scale supramolecular anisotropic structures in 1D–3D.  A conceptually different seeded supramolecular polymerization was shown by Kazunori Sugiyasu in a porphyrin-based monomer bearing amide-appended long alkyl chains.  At low temperature, this monomer preferentially forms spherical J-aggregates while fibrous H-aggregates at higher temperature.  By adding a sonicated mixture of the J-aggregates ("seeds") into a concentrated solution of the J-aggregate particles, long fibers can be prepared via living seeded supramolecular polymerization.  Frank Würthner achieved similar seeded supramolecular polymerization of amide functionalized perylene bisimide as monomer.  Importantly, the seeded supramolecular polymerization is also applicable to prepare supramolecular block copolymers.