Hyperbranched polymers: advances from synthesis to applications

Y Zheng, S Li, Z Weng, C Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Hyperbranched polymers (HPs) are highly branched three-dimensional (3D)
macromolecules. Their globular and dendritic architectures endow them with unique …

Functional hyperbranched polymers with advanced optical, electrical and magnetic properties

W Wu, R Tang, Q Li, Z Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
As one kind of important functional material, those with advanced optical, electrical and
magnetic characteristics have attracted increasing attention due to their essential and …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphorus-free hyperbranched polyborate flame retardant: Ultra-high strength and toughness, reduced fire hazards and unexpected transparency for epoxy …

Y Zhang, R Liu, R Yu, K Yang, L Guo, H Yan - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
The design of high transparent epoxy resins (EPs) with excellent flame retardancy and
mechanical strength is still intractable, while the current use of phosphorus-based flame …

Defects and defect engineering in Soft Matter

A Jangizehi, F Schmid, P Besenius, K Kremer… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

Design and synthesis of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers containing tetraphenylethene and bisulfone units for energy storage and fluorescent sensing of …

MG Mohamed, HY Hu, S Santhoshkumar… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we successfully used the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction to prepare three novel
conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) that include tetraphenylethene (TPE): TPE-Ph-Th …

Hyperbranched polymers from A 2+ B 3 strategy: Recent advances in description and control of fine topology

H Chen, J Kong - Polymer Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hyperbranched or highly branched polymers from A2+ B3 step-growth polymerization have
received considerable attention as an emerging area of research due to their …

Chain‐Growth Click Polymerization of AB2 Monomers for the Formation of Hyperbranched Polymers with Low Polydispersities in a One‐Pot Process

Y Shi, RW Graff, X Cao, X Wang, H Gao - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperbranched polymers are important soft nanomaterials but robust synthetic methods with
which the polymer structures can be easily controlled have rarely been reported. For the first …

Conjugated polymer synthesis via catalyst-transfer polycondensation (CTP): mechanism, scope, and applications

ZJ Bryan, AJ McNeil - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
The recent discovery of a living, controlled chain-growth method for synthesizing π-
conjugated polymers has ignited the field and led to the development of many new …

The history of palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings should inspire the future of catalyst-transfer polymerization

AK Leone, EA Mueller, AJ McNeil - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers are the workhorse materials in organic electronics, a field that is
rapidly growing to encompass energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and …

Impact of copolymer sequence on solid-state properties for random, gradient and block copolymers containing thiophene and selenophene

EF Palermo, AJ McNeil - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
Nickel-catalyzed chain-growth copolymerizations of thiophene and selenophene derivatives
afforded well-defined π-conjugated copolymers with narrow molecular weight distributions …