During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Solvent‐based recycling is a promising approach for closed‐loop recovery of plastic‐
containing waste. It avoids the energy cost to depolymerize the plastic but still allows to …

Polymer brushes have been theoretically described, their behavior under diverse conditions
has been modeled, and their preparation via surface-initiated polymerizations (SIPs) has …

Stochastic modeling techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the time evolution
of processes in many research fields including (bio) chemical engineering and biology. One …

One of the challenges for modelling of polymerization kinetics is the detailed description of
the molecular build-up of both linear and non-linear chains, specifically those with many …

Polylactic acid (PLA) is an important polymer for the replacement of oil-based polymers in
the biomedical field as well as for degradable single use polymeric materials. To fully exploit …

A challenge in the field of polymer network synthesis by a step-growth mechanism is the
quantification of the relative importance of inter-vs. intramolecular reactions. Here we use a …

The confinement effect on crosslinking and gelation during controlled/living
copolymerization of a monovinyl and a divinyl monomer was studied by Monte Carlo …

Computer simulations are widely applied to study surface-initiated polymerization (SIP), but
in many studies, the chains are assumed to grow at the same speed, implying a …

Monte Carlo modeling has emerged as a powerful tool to describe system state variations in
many engineering systems. If distributed species are involved, the so-called Gillespie-based …