Advances in design and biomedical application of hierarchical polymer brushes

R Yang, X Wang, S Yan, A Dong, S Luan… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent decades have witnessed abundant research on surface modifications to hierarchical
polymer brushes for multiple biomedical applications. The rational design and spatial …

Design, preparation, and characterization of lubricating polymer brushes for biomedical applications

X Song, J Man, Y Qiu, J Wang, J Liu, R Li, Y Zhang… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The lubrication modification of biomedical devices significantly enhances the functionality of
implanted interventional medical devices, thereby providing additional benefits for patients …

Rapid high‐resolution 3D printing and surface functionalization via type I photoinitiated RAFT polymerization

K Lee, N Corrigan, C Boyer - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
RAFT facilitated digital light projection 3D printing of polymeric materials provides a
convenient and facile route for inducing post‐fabrication transformations via reactivation of …

Recent development in halogen-bonding-catalyzed living radical polymerization

CG Wang, AML Chong, HM Pan, J Sarkar, XT Tay… - Polymer …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Halogen bonding (XB) has been used to catalyze organic reactions and polymerizations,
which is an emerging research area. Reversible complexation mediated polymerization …

A guide to functionalisation and bioconjugation strategies to surface-initiated polymer brushes

CE Neri-Cruz, FME Teixeira, JE Gautrot - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the first introduction of their concept in the 1980s and 90s, polymer brushes have
been the focus of intense research efforts to identify novel physico-chemical properties and …

Oxygen-tolerant photografting for surface structuring from microliter volumes

W Sheng, W Li, S Xu, Y Du, R Jordan - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Here, we report an oxygen-tolerant photografting technique to grow polymer brushes
employing microliter volumes of monomer solution under ambient conditions. With the key …

Iodine-mediated reversible-deactivation radical polymerization: a powerful strategy for polymer synthesis

Y Ni, L Zhang, Z Cheng, X Zhu - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, well-defined polymers can be easily obtained through different techniques
benefitting from the tremendous progress achieved in reversible-deactivation radical …

Reversible complexation mediated polymerization: an emerging type of organocatalytically controlled radical polymerization

ZH Chen, XY Wang, Y Tang - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As a newly developed approach of controlled radical polymerization (CRP), reversible
complexation mediated polymerization (RCMP) was established in 2011 by Goto et al …

Lithium Salt-Induced In Situ Living Radical Polymerizations Enable Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

L Yu, Y Zhang, J Wang, H Gan, S Li, X Xie… - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, polymer electrolytes (PEs) were designed and fabricated through lithium salt-
induced in situ living radical copolymerization of poly (ethylene glycol) methacrylate …

Hydrogen bond effects: a strategy for improving controllability in organocatalytic photoinduced controlled radical polymerization targeting high molecular weight

YN Li, SY Zhang, Y Ma, YJ Ding, ZH Chen… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A highly efficacious photoinduced reversible complexation-mediated polymerization (photo-
RCMP) system using amino alcohol N-oxide as the catalyst has been developed, allowing …