The discovery of living anionic polymerization by Szwarc 50 years ago opened the way to the synthesis of model polymers. This ground-breaking discovery inspired many researchers …
AW Bosman, R Vestberg, A Heumann… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
A new strategy for the preparation of functional, multiarm star polymers via nitroxide- mediated “living” radical polymerization has been explored. The generality of this approach …
This perspective presents the state-of-the-art techniques to synthesize highly branched polymers such as dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers with well-defined linear chains …
The efficiency of the macromonomer (MM) synthetic strategy for the creation of nonlinear complex macromolecular architectures (miktoarm stars, α, ω‐branched polymers …
SJ Teertstra, M Gauthier - Progress in polymer science, 2004 - Elsevier
Dendrigraft polymers are a class of highly branched macromolecules belonging to the dendritic polymer family. Multiple branching levels characterize the architecture of these …
JF Quinn, RP Chaplin, TP Davis - Journal of Polymer Science …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization has been shown to be a facile means of synthesizing comb, star, and graft polymers of styrene. The precursors …
D Uhrig, J Mays - Polymer Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This short review article focuses on significant developments made in the pursuit of well- defined graft copolymers over the past decade or so. The state-of-the-art for synthesis of the …
M Zamurovic, S Christodoulou, A Vazaios… - …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Complex comblike block copolymers of various architectures containing polystyrene, PS, and polyisoprene, PI, or polybutadiene, PB, components were synthesized by anionic …
Q Liu, Y Chen - Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a new strategy for synthesizing a series of well‐defined macromonomers. Bromine‐terminated polystyrene and poly (t‐butyl acrylate) with …