Conspectus Polymer brushes are special macromolecular structures with polymer chains
densely tethered to another polymer chain (one-dimensional, 1D) or the surface of a planar …

Nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) is a controlled/living radical polymerization
(CLRP) technique that enables the design of well-defined, functional and complex …

Graft copolymers with a large number of side chains chemically attached onto a linear
backbone are endowed with unusual properties thanks to their confined and compact …

The organic nitroxyl radical, TEMPO (2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl), finds a variety
of industrial applications for chemical transformations. Because of economic and …

This review highlights recent advances in the micellization of synthetic graft copolymers and
those based on natural precursors, particularly polysaccharides. Synthesis and …

The self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers is acknowledged as a powerful tool for
the fabrication of nanoparticles with a wide variety of nanostructures in aqueous solutions. In …

Here we report a modular strategy for preparing physically cross-linked and mechanically
robust free-standing hydrogels comprising unique thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC) …

Graphene nanosheets offer intriguing electronic, thermal and mechanical properties and are
expected to find a variety of applications in high‐performance nanocomposite materials. The …

An efficient metal-free “grafting onto” method was developed for preparing bottlebrush
polymers based on the combination of reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer …

Silver nanomaterials have attracted a great deal of interest due to their broad-spectrum
antimicrobial activity. However, it is still challenging to balance the high antibacterial …