A comparison of RAFT and ATRP methods for controlled radical polymerization

NP Truong, GR Jones, KGE Bradford… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization and atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP) are the two most common controlled radical polymerization …

Click chemistry strategies for the accelerated synthesis of functional macromolecules

Z Geng, JJ Shin, Y Xi, CJ Hawker - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Click chemistry is one of the most powerful strategies for constructing polymeric soft
materials with precise control over architecture and functionality. In this review, we provide a …

Evolution and future directions of metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization

EH Discekici, A Anastasaki, J Read de Alaniz… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The increasing impact of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in fields beyond
traditional polymer science has necessitated the development of alternative strategies for …

Enol ethers are effective monomers for ring-opening metathesis polymerization: synthesis of degradable and depolymerizable poly (2, 3-dihydrofuran)

JD Feist, Y Xia - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enol ethers are widely used as quenching reagents for Grubbs catalysts. However, we
report the surprisingly effective ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclic …

Self-assembled nanostructures from amphiphilic block copolymers prepared via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP)

S Varlas, SB Lawrenson, LA Arkinstall… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of controlled/living polymerization methodologies has underpinned a
rapid expanse in our understanding of amphiphilic block copolymer self-assembly. In …

Romantic surfaces: a systematic overview of stable, biospecific, and antifouling zwitterionic surfaces

J Baggerman, MMJ Smulders, H Zuilhof - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
This Feature Article focuses on recent advances in the bioconjugation of surface-bound
zwitterionic polymers for biospecific antifouling surfaces. Various approaches for the …

Opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in making, characterizing, and understanding polymer brushes

CW Pester, HA Klok, EM Benetti - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer brushes have been theoretically described, their behavior under diverse conditions
has been modeled, and their preparation via surface-initiated polymerizations (SIPs) has …

Supramolecular polymer materials based on ureidopyrimidinone quadruple hydrogen bonding units

J Verjans, R Hoogenboom - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Supramolecular polymer materials are polymeric structures that are physically crosslinked
by non-covalent interactions such as ionic interactions, host-guest complexation and …

Cyclic polymers: Advances in their synthesis, properties, and biomedical applications

R Liénard, J De Winter… - Journal of Polymer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Since the time first synthetic macrocycles were observed as academic curiosities, great
advances have been made. Thanks to the development of controlled polymerization …

Olefin metathesis polymerization: Some recent developments in the precise polymerizations for synthesis of advanced materials (by ROMP, ADMET)

Y Chen, MM Abdellatif, K Nomura - Tetrahedron, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent results for synthesis of end-functionalized polymers (EFP) by using olefin metathesis
polymerization have been introduced including basic characteristics in ring-opening …