End-Functionalized Polymers by Controlled/Living Radical Polymerizations: Synthesis and Applications

The precise design of polymers with well-defined end functionality has received great interest for synthesizing polymeric materials with advanced or distinctive properties. In the past decades, considerable attention has been...

Well-defined polyacrylamides with AIE properties via rapid Cu-mediated living radical polymerizations in aqueous solution: thermoresponsive nanoparticles for bioimaging

There is a requirment for the development of methods for the preparation of well-controlled polymers with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) property. This requirement directed this current work towards a robust synthetic...

Carbon allotropes grafted with poly(pyrrole) derivatives via living radical polymerizations: electrochemical analysis of nano-composites for energy storage

Carbon-based nanomaterials are key components in energy storage devices.

Recent advances in organic–inorganic well-defined hybrid polymers using controlled living radical polymerization techniques

Controlled living radical polymerizations, such as ATRP and RAFT polymerization, could be utilized for the preparation of well-defined organic–inorganic hybrid polymers based on POSS, PDMS, silica nanoparticles, graphene, CNTs and fullerene.

Sequence-Controlled Vinyl Polymers by Transition Metal-Catalyzed Step-Growth and Living Radical Polymerizations

ABSTRACTThe metal-catalyzed step-growth radical polymerization was achieved to enable two systems for preparing tailored polymeric structures, i.e., sequence-regulated vinyl copolymer and periodically-functionalized polymer. The former is a novel strategy for preparing sequence-regulated vinyl copolymers by step-polymerization of sequence-regulated vinyl oligomers prepared from common vinyl monomers as building blocks. The later deals the simultaneous chain- and step-growth radical polymerization, which resulted in the polymers with periodic functional groups.