Of significant interest is the development of synthetic methodologies to prepare complex
macromolecular structures that contain functionalities, allowing for stimuli-responsive …

INTRODUCTION During the past decade, functional bottlebrush polymers, or molecular
brushes, have attracted increasing attention, due to their unique physiochemical properties …

As an important type of nanoscopically sized single macromolecule, brush copolymers have
attracted significant attention due to their special properties and interest in the development …

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The tandem RAFT and ROMP, grafting-through approach for
the preparation of well-defined brush copolymers involved four sequential steps of RAFT …

Various macromonomers (MMs) were efficiently synthesized through the copper-catalyzed
“click” coupling of a norbornene moiety to the chain end of poly (methylacrylate), poly (t …

Brush-like macromolecules are unique polymer molecules whose conformation and
physical properties are controlled by steric repulsion of densely grafted side chains …

Among polymers with controlled and more complex architectures, brush diblock copolymers
(brush-1-block-brush-2) have received increasing attention. 1À9 They are basically two …

Molecular brushes (densely grafted polymers or bottle-brush macromolecules) were
synthesized by the “grafting onto” method via combination of atom transfer radical …

Well‐defined macromolecular brushes with poly (N‐isopropyl acrylamide)(PNIPAM) side
chains on random copolymer backbones were synthesized by “grafting from” approach …

Control over bottlebrush polymer synthesis by ring-opening metathesis polymerization
(ROMP) of macromonomers (MMs) is highly dependent on the competition between the …