Photoinduced electron transfer reactions for macromolecular syntheses

S Dadashi-Silab, S Doran, Y Yagci - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photochemical reactions, particularly those involving photoinduced electron transfer
processes, establish a substantial contribution to the modern synthetic chemistry, and the …

The strength of multi-scale modeling to unveil the complexity of radical polymerization

DR D'hooge, PHM Van Steenberge… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
The strength of multi-scale modeling to support the fundamental understanding and design
of radical polymerization processes is illustrated, considering both controlled and free …

Drug-initiated synthesis of polymer prodrugs: combining simplicity and efficacy in drug delivery

J Nicolas - Chemistry of Materials, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the field of nanomedicine, the global trend over the past few years has been toward the
design of highly sophisticated drug delivery systems with active targeting and/or imaging …

Aqueous copper (II) photoinduced polymerization of acrylates: Low copper concentration and the importance of sodium halide salts

GR Jones, R Whitfield, A Anastasaki… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced metal-mediated radical polymerization is a rapidly developing technique
which allows for the synthesis of macromolecules with defined molecular weight and narrow …

Visible and sunlight driven RAFT photopolymerization accelerated by amines: kinetics and mechanism

ML Allegrezza, ZM DeMartini, AJ Kloster, ZA Digby… - Polymer …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, photochemical polymerizations have received interest since they can be
performed under mild conditions and they offer temporal control over the reaction. In this …

The living dead–common misconceptions about reversible deactivation radical polymerization

MH Stenzel, C Barner-Kowollik - Materials Horizons, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
'Living/controlled'radical polymerization, preferably termed 'reversible deactivation radical
polymerization'(RDRP), is now a well-established technique to generate functional and …

Direct radical polymerization of vinyl ethers: reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of hydroxy-functional vinyl ethers

S Sugihara, Y Kawamoto, Y Maeda - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Unprecedented controlled radical vinyl polymerization (CRP) of vinyl ethers using reversible
addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization is reported. In order to …

RAFT synthesis of well-defined PVDF-b-PVAc block copolymers

M Guerre, SMW Rahaman, B Améduri, R Poli… - Polymer …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
RAFT polymerization of vinylidene fluoride (VDF), leading to relatively well defined poly
(vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF), is negatively affected by chain inversion resulting in less easily …

PET/CT imaging of chemokine receptors in inflammatory atherosclerosis using targeted nanoparticles

HP Luehmann, L Detering, BP Fors… - Journal of nuclear …, 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
Atherosclerosis is inherently an inflammatory process that is strongly affected by the
chemokine–chemokine receptor axes regulating the trafficking of inflammatory cells at all …

Cross-linked small-molecule micelle-based drug delivery system: concept, synthesis, and biological evaluation

C Liao, Y Chen, Y Yao, S Zhang, Z Gu… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Lessons from the covalent capture of small-molecule self-assemblies (monomer molecular
weight of< 500.0) are applied to grow a generic cross-linked small-molecule micelle-based …