RAFT polymerization to form stimuli-responsive polymers

G Moad - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive polymers adapt to their surrounding environment. These polymers are
capable of responding to a variety of external stimuli, which include optical, electrical …

Marrying click chemistry with polymerization: expanding the scope of polymeric materials

PL Golas, K Matyjaszewski - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Click chemistry constitutes a class of reactions broadly characterized by efficiency,
selectivity, and tolerance to a variety of solvents and functional groups. By far the most …

o-Nitrobenzyl Alcohol Derivatives: Opportunities in Polymer and Materials Science

H Zhao, ES Sterner, EB Coughlin, P Theato - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
Polymers featuring photolabile groups are the subject of intense research because they
allow the alteration of polymer properties simply by irradiation. In particular, the o-nitrobenzyl …

End group removal and modification of RAFT polymers

H Willcock, RK O'Reilly - Polymer Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes both well-established routes and recent advances in the end group
modification of polymers synthesised by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a second update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian journal of chemistry, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a second update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a mechanism of …

Nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization: limitations and versatility

RB Grubbs - Polymer Reviews, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Since its introduction in the early 1990s, nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMP)
has been widely adopted for the preparation of a panoply of new polymer architectures …

Standing on the shoulders of Hermann Staudinger: Post‐polymerization modification from past to present

KA Günay, P Theato, HA Klok - Journal of Polymer Science Part …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
With a span as long as the history of polymer science itself, post‐polymerization modification
represents a versatile platform for the preparation of diversely functionalized polymers from …

Telechelic polymers by living and controlled/living polymerization methods

MA Tasdelen, MU Kahveci, Y Yagci - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Telechelic polymers, defined as macromolecules that contain two reactive end groups, are
used as cross-linkers, chain extenders, and important building blocks for various …

End‐functional polymers, thiocarbonylthio group removal/transformation and reversible addition–fragmentation–chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Polymer International, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on processes for thiocarbonylthio group removal/transformation of
polymers synthesized by radical polymerization with reversible addition‐fragmentation …

Building nanostructures using RAFT polymerization

C Boyer, MH Stenzel, TP Davis - Journal of Polymer Science …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization is one of the most
extensively studied controlled/living radical polymerization methods that has been used to …