Polysaccharide nanoparticles: From fabrication to applications

A Plucinski, Z Lyu, BVKJ Schmidt - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polysaccharides have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of applications in
recent years, which is due to their remarkable features such as biocompatibility …

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Up in the air: oxygen tolerance in controlled/living radical polymerisation

J Yeow, R Chapman, AJ Gormley… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The requirement for deoxygenation in controlled/living radical polymerisation (CLRP) places
significant limitations on its widespread implementation by necessitating the use of large …

Recent advances in graft copolymerization and applications of chitosan: a review

VK Thakur, MK Thakur - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Chitosan is among one of the most important and most studied natural polymers. The
cationic nature of chitosan makes it a polymer of high importance from environmental and …

Graft modification of natural polysaccharides via reversible deactivation radical polymerization

O Garcia-Valdez, P Champagne… - Progress in Polymer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Interest in the development of new hybrid materials based on natural polysaccharides has
grown exponentially in the last decade. Such materials are commonly obtained by the graft …

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerizations from silica nanoparticles, gold nanocrystals, and bionanoparticles

L Wu, U Glebe, A Böker - Polymer Chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, core/shell nanohybrids containing a nanoparticle core and a distinct
surrounding shell of polymer brushes have received extensive attention in nanoelectronics …

Iron-mediated reversible deactivation controlled radical polymerization

R Poli, LEN Allan, MP Shaver - Progress in polymer science, 2014 - Elsevier
Metal-mediated reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) is now a cornerstone
of functional polymer synthesis, dominated by copper complexes and the Atom Transfer …

Iron-catalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization

Z Xue, D He, X Xie - Polymer Chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last two decades, metal-catalyzed controlled radical polymerization (CRP), or atom
transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) has become a ubiquitous tool for the facile synthesis …

Iron-mediated ICAR ATRP of methyl methacrylate

G Zhu, L Zhang, Z Zhang, J Zhu, Y Tu, Z Cheng… - …, 2011 - ACS Publications
An iron (III)(FeCl3· 6H2O) catalyst was found to be an active catalyst for initiators for
continuous activator regeneration atom transfer radical polymerization (ICAR ATRP) of …

Temperature and pH responsive polymers based on chitosan: applications and new graft copolymerization strategies based on living radical polymerization

AS Carreira, F Gonçalves, PV Mendonça, MH Gil… - Carbohydrate …, 2010 - Elsevier
The present review aims to highlight the applications of pH and temperature responsive
chitosan-based polymers. Such materials are used in the development of several …