The past decade has witnessed remarkable innovations and progress in polymer and supramolecular science, which offer great opportunity for new concepts, new materials with unique properties and novel practical applications. Conjugated polyrotaxanes have attracted considerable attention not only because of their architecture and topology, but also because they offer an efficient strategy towards the "insulation" of individual molecular wires. The presence of the macrocycle is essential for the control of intermolecular interactions, and conjugated polyrotaxanes may function as model compounds...