  Being ubiquitous, solitons have particle-like properties, exhibiting
behaviour often associated with atoms. Bound solitons emulate dynamics of
molecules, though solitonic analogues of polymeric materials have not been
considered yet. Here we experimentally create and model soliton polymers, which
we call polyskyrmionomers, built of atom-like individual solitons characterized
by the topological invariant representing the skyrmion number. With the help of
nonlinear optical imaging and numerical modelling based on minimizing the free
energy, we reveal how topological point defects bind the solitonic quasi-atoms
into polyskyrmionomers, featuring linear, branched, and other
macromolecule-resembling architectures, as well as allowing for encoding data
by spatial distributions of the skyrmion number. Application of oscillating
electric fields activates diverse modes of locomotion and internal vibrations
of these self-assembled soliton structures, which depend on symmetry of the
solitonic macromolecules. Our findings suggest new designs of soliton meta
matter, with a potential for the use in fundamental research and technology.
