Modern concept of polymers credited to Hermann Staudinger, who substantiated the existence of covalently linked ultralong molecules in 1920, which he called as macromolecules.  The preamble of the field of supramolecular polymers can be considered dye-aggregates and host-guest complexes.  In early 19th century, scientists working in the field of pigments have noticed certain dye aggregates that may formed via "a special kind of polymerization", however no theory was proposed.   After the establishment of the field of supramolecular chemistry and after the award of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1987 to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Charles J. Pedersen, chemists started to design and study larger assembled structures from small molecules.  In 1988, Takuzo Aida, a Japanese polymer chemist, reported the concept of cofacial assembly wherein the amphiphilic porphyrin monomers are connected via van der Waals interaction forming one-dimensional architectures in solution, which can be considered as a prototype of supramolecular polymers.  In the same year 1988, James D. Wuest introduced one-dimensional aggregates based on hydrogen bonding interaction in the crystalline state.  With a different strategyusing hydrogen bonds, Jean M. J. Fréchet showed in 1989 that mesogenic molecules with carboxylic acid and pyridyl motifs, upon mixing in bulk, heterotropically dimerize to form a stable liquid crystalline structure.  In 1990, Jean-Marie Lehn showed that this strategy can be expanded to form a new category of polymers, which he called "liquid crystalline supramolecular polymer" using complementary triple hydrogen bonding motifs in bulk.  In 1993, M. Reza Ghadiri reported a nanotubular supramolecular polymer where a b-sheet-forming macrocyclic peptide monomer assembled together via multiple hydrogen bonding between adjacent macrocycles.  In 1994, Anselm. C. Griffin showed an amorphous supramolecular material using a single hydrogen bond between a homotropic molecules having carboxylic acid and pyridine termini.  The idea to make mechanically strong polymeric materials by 1D supramolecular association of small molecules requires a high association constant between the repeating building blocks.  In 1997, E.W. "Bert" Meijer reported a telechelic monomer with ureidopyrimidinone termini as a "self-complementary" quadruple hydrogen bonding motif and demonstrated that the resulting supramolecular polymer in chloroform shows a temperature-dependent viscoelastic property in solution.  This is the first demonstration that supramolecular polymers, when sufficiently mechanically robust, are physically entangled in solution.