Bottlebrush polymers: From controlled synthesis, self-assembly, properties to applications

Z Li, M Tang, S Liang, M Zhang, GM Biesold… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) have emerged as intriguing class of materials for an array of
applications, including supersoft elastomers, organic optoelectronics, templates for crafting …

Driving polymer brushes from synthesis to functioning

R Wang, Q Wei, W Sheng, B Yu, F Zhou… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The great success of controlled radical polymerizations has encouraged researchers to
develop more facile and robust approaches for surface‐initiated polymerizations (SIPs) to …

Structure, function, self-assembly, and applications of bottlebrush copolymers

R Verduzco, X Li, SL Pesek, GE Stein - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Bottlebrush polymers are a type of branched or graft polymer with polymeric side-chains
attached to a linear backbone, and the unusual architectures of bottlebrushes provide a …

Janus particles: synthesis, self-assembly, physical properties, and applications

A Walther, AHE Muller - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Symmetric shapes and patterns are fascinating and preferred by humans as symmetric
stimuli of any kind are more easily processed by the visual systems than their asymmetric …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a third update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a third update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (RDRP) achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a …

Getting into shape: reflections on a new generation of cylindrical nanostructures' self-assembly using polymer building blocks

JC Foster, S Varlas, B Couturaud, Z Coe… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cylinders are fascinating structures with uniquely high surface area, internal volume, and
rigidity. On the nanoscale, a broad range of applications have demonstrated advantageous …

Block copolymer–nanoparticle composites: Structure, functional properties, and processing

B Sarkar, P Alexandridis - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The incorporation of nanoscopic particles into ordered nanostructures afforded by block
copolymers can provide control over particle distribution and orientation. This could enable …

Bottlebrush polymer synthesis by ring-opening metathesis polymerization: the significance of the anchor group

SC Radzinski, JC Foster, RC Chapleski Jr… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Control over bottlebrush polymer synthesis by ring-opening metathesis polymerization
(ROMP) of macromonomers (MMs) is highly dependent on the competition between the …

A versatile platform for precise synthesis of asymmetric molecular brush in one shot

B Xu, C Feng, X Huang - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Asymmetric molecular brushes emerge as a unique class of nanostructured polymers, while
their versatile synthesis keeps a challenge for chemists. Here we show the synthesis of well …

Graft-through Synthesis and Assembly of Janus Bottlebrush Polymers from A-Branch-B Diblock Macromonomers

K Kawamoto, M Zhong, KR Gadelrab… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of Janus bottlebrush block copolymers by graft-through
polymerization of branched diblock macromonomers. Self-assembly of the bottlebrushes …