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 …

Applied machine learning as a driver for polymeric biomaterials design

SM McDonald, EK Augustine, Q Lanners… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polymers are ubiquitous to almost every aspect of modern society and their use in medical
products is similarly pervasive. Despite this, the diversity in commercial polymers used in …

Progress and perspectives beyond traditional RAFT polymerization

MD Nothling, Q Fu, A Reyhani… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of advanced materials based on well‐defined polymeric architectures is
proving to be a highly prosperous research direction across both industry and academia …

Open-air green-light-driven ATRP enabled by dual photoredox/copper catalysis

G Szczepaniak, J Jeong, K Kapil, S Dadashi-Silab… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization (photo-ATRP) has risen to the forefront of
modern polymer chemistry as a powerful tool giving access to well-defined materials with …

Bioactive synthetic polymers

K Jung, N Corrigan, EHH Wong, C Boyer - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic polymers are omnipresent in society as textiles and packaging materials, in
construction and medicine, among many other important applications. Alternatively, natural …

Synthetic antimicrobial polymers in combination therapy: tackling antibiotic resistance

R Namivandi-Zangeneh, EHH Wong… - ACS Infectious …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance is a critical global healthcare issue that urgently needs new effective
solutions. While small molecule antibiotics have been safeguarding us for nearly a century …

Inverse Miniemulsion Enables the Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Controlled Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polymers

CLG Davidson IV, ME Lott, L Trachsel… - ACS Macro …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the controlled synthesis of ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polymers (M n≥
106 g/mol) via continuous flow in a tubular reactor. At high monomer conversion, UHMW …

Automation and data-driven design of polymer therapeutics

R Upadhya, S Kosuri, M Tamasi, TA Meyer… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymers are uniquely suited for drug delivery and biomaterial applications due to tunable
structural parameters such as length, composition, architecture, and valency. To facilitate …

Photo‐Enhanced Antimicrobial Activity of Polymers Containing an Embedded Photosensitiser

PR Judzewitsch, N Corrigan, EHH Wong… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This work presents the synthesis of a novel photosensitive acrylate monomer for use as both
a self‐catalyst in the photoinduced electron/energy transfer–reversible addition …

An Atom‐Economic Enzymatic Cascade Catalysis for High‐Throughput RAFT Synthesis of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymers

R Li, S Zhang, Q Li, GG Qiao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput synthesis of well‐defined, ultrahigh molecular weight (UHMW) polymers by
green approaches is highly desirable but remains unexplored. We report the creation of an …