Photocontrolled RAFT polymerization: past, present, and future

Y Lee, C Boyer, MS Kwon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we provide a brief history, progress, and applications, and discuss the
remaining challenges of photocontrolled reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer …

Reversed controlled polymerization (RCP): depolymerization from well-defined polymers to monomers

GR Jones, HS Wang, K Parkatzidis… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlled polymerization methods are well-established synthetic protocols for the design
and preparation of polymeric materials with a high degree of precision over molar mass and …

Atom transfer radical polymerization: a mechanistic perspective

F Lorandi, M Fantin… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Since its inception, atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) has seen continuous
evolution in terms of the design of the catalyst and reaction conditions; today, it is one of the …

Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (Controlled/living radical polymerization): From discovery to materials design and applications

N Corrigan, K Jung, G Moad, CJ Hawker… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) processes, such as atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP), reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) …

Amphiphilic block copolymers: their structures, and self-assembly to polymeric micelles and polymersomes as drug delivery vehicles

K Kuperkar, D Patel, LI Atanase, P Bahadur - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers display a multiplicity of nanoscale periodic
patterns proposed as a dominant tool for the 'bottom-up'fabrication of nanomaterials with …

Precision polymer synthesis by controlled radical polymerization: Fusing the progress from polymer chemistry and reaction engineering

YN Zhou, JJ Li, TT Wang, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Photocatalytic ATRP depolymerization: temporal control at low ppm of catalyst concentration

K Parkatzidis, NP Truong… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A photocatalytic ATRP depolymerization is introduced that significantly suppresses the
reaction temperature from 170 to 100° C while enabling temporal regulation. In the presence …

Reversing RAFT polymerization: near-quantitative monomer generation via a catalyst-free depolymerization approach

HS Wang, NP Truong, Z Pei, ML Coote… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The ability to reverse controlled radical polymerization and regenerate the monomer would
be highly beneficial for both fundamental research and applications, yet this has remained …

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 …

Fast bulk depolymerization of polymethacrylates by ATRP

F De Luca Bossa, G Yilmaz, K Matyjaszewski - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fast bulk depolymerization of poly (n-butyl methacrylate) and poly (methyl methacrylate),
prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), is reported in the temperature …