During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) combine the features of vulcanized thermoset rubbers and
thermoplastic materials in their phase-separated microdomain structure. As a consequence …

The three-dimensional arrangement of natural and synthetic network materials determines
their application range. Control over the real-time incorporation of each building block and …

The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in developing advanced
polymerization techniques subjected to external fields. Various physical modulations, such …

This review encompasses the fundamentals of kinetics of atom transfer radical
polymerization (ATRP). ATRP is a versatile reversible-deactivation radical polymerization …

The strength of multi-scale modeling to support the fundamental understanding and design
of radical polymerization processes is illustrated, considering both controlled and free …

Stochastic modeling techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the time evolution
of processes in many research fields including (bio) chemical engineering and biology. One …

One of the challenges faced by modern society is the realization of a circular economy for
polymer products. A bottleneck is the understanding of (co) polymer synthesis and …

Monte Carlo methods are heuristic algorithms that use probabilities to select an outcome
among several possible events in a given process. Monte Carlo methods are useful in …

Controlled radical polymerization (CRP) systems have gained increasing interests for the
past two decades. Numerous publications may be found in the literature reporting …