“…Over the past few years, synthetic polymers containing acidic phosphate groups have been the subject of extensive research [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Their similarity to environmental inorganic polyphosphates [ 8 , 9 ], nucleic acids [ 10 ] and teichoic acids (TAs) [ 11 ] ( Scheme 1 a), as well as the biocompatibility of the phosphate group [ 5 , 12 ], offers great opportunities for the use of these polymers for different biomedical [ 1 , 2 , 5 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ], industrial [ 4 , 18 ] and household [ 19 ] applications.…”