Polymers have many advantages such as low weight, low cost, and, importantly, stability
under thermal, chemical, and mechanical stress. This stability, on the other hand, leads to …

Cyclic monomers bearing either vinyl or exomethylene groups have the ability to be
polymerized through a radical pathway via a ring-opening mechanism (addition …

Polycaprolactone (PCL) is one of the earliest, commercially available, synthetic polymers
characterized by a large set of biodegradation and mechanical properties that can be finely …

We report a novel method to synthesize degradable poly (vinyl ether) s with cleavable
thioacetal bonds periodically arranged in the main chains using controlled cationic …

This article is the first comprehensive review on the study and use of vinyl ester monomers in
reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. It covers all the …

With an increasing interest in the synthesis of (bio) degradable polymers, the synthesis of
(bio) degradable vinyl polymer particles is attracting growing attention. In this work …

While synthetic polymers have found widespread application in personal and consumer
care, and agrochemical and biomedical applications, there remains a constant drive to …

Radical ring-opening copolymerization-induced self-assembly (rROPISA) was performed by
copolymerizing benzyl methacrylate and cyclic ketene acetals (CKA), such as 2-methylene-4 …

The 7-membered cyclic thionolactone, ε-thionocaprolactone (TCL), undergoes radical
copolymerization with vinyl esters to form degradable copolymers. While most radical ring …

The incorporation of heteroatoms into the backbone of commodity polymers prepared by
radical polymerization is an elegant way to confer (bio) degradability to such materials. This …