New insights into green food preservation:“armored” lignin nanoparticles as promising antioxidant-cum-antimicrobial agents

J Xu, J Zhao, J Zhou, Y Kong, Y Yang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
How to effectively protect lignin so that it can play a role in the field of food preservation in a
long-term and stable way is a problem we need to solve. Herein, first, we used the “armor” …

Step-growth irreversible deactivation radical polymerization: synergistic developments with chain-growth reversible deactivation radical polymerization

M Kamigaito - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in chain-growth reversible deactivation radical polymerization (CG-
RDRP), ie the so-called “living radical polymerization”, have synergistically developed step …

Controlled switching thiocarbonylthio end-groups enables interconvertible radical and cationic single-unit monomer insertions and RAFT polymerizations

W He, W Tao, Z Wei, G Tong, X Liu, J Tan… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
To emulate the ordered arrangement of monomer units found in natural macromolecules,
single-unit monomer insertion (SUMI) have emerged as a potent technique for synthesizing …

Synthesis and characteristics of smart coating materials for reversible double stimulus-responsive oil–water separation

Q Zhang, H Wang, L Qiu, X Han, Z Wang… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The developed smart coating for water–oil separation, characterized by its mild separation
conditions, ease of control, and absence of secondary pollution, holds promising potential …

Preparation of fluorinated polyesters by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer step-growth polymerization

G Mei, S Lei, Q Li, J Xu, M Huo - Polymer Chemistry, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorinated polyesters have demonstrated significant research value and application
prospects, while their traditional synthetic strategies were restrained by harsh reaction …

RAFT Polymerization for Advanced Morphological Control: From Individual Polymer Chains to Bulk Materials

K Hakobyan, F Ishizuka, N Corrigan, J Xu… - Advanced …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Control of the morphology of polymer systems is achieved through reversible‐deactivation
radical polymerization techniques such as Reversible Addition‐Fragmentation chain …

Pyrazole carbodithiolate-driven iterative RAFT single-additions

K Hakobyan, B Noble, J Xu - Chemical Communications, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this Communication, we comprehensively investigated substituent effects relevant to
iterative reversible activation fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) single unit monomer …

Orthogonal Radical and Cationic Single‐Unit Monomer Insertions for Engineering Polymer Architectures

Z Wei, W He, Z Liu, Y Lin, M Wang, L Li… - Angewandte …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The single‐unit monomer insertion (SUMI), derived from living/controlled polymerization,
can be directly functionalized at the end or within the chain of polymers prepared by …

Geometric confinement growth of wax crystals by star acrylate polymer for enhanced cold flowability of waxy crudes

X Sun, L Jia, X Li, S Zhang, Y Wang, M Fan, J Xu - Fuel, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Wax precipitation causes numerous challenges in the transportation and refining of crude
oil. Wax deposition can be decreased and the flowability of waxy crude oil in cold …

A Baicalin‐Based Functional Polymer in Dynamic Reversible Networks Alleviates Osteoarthritis by Cellular Interactions

Y Yang, Q Hu, Q Shao, Y Peng, B Yu, F Luo… - Advanced …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Osteoarthritis (OA) is increasingly recognized as a whole‐organ disease predominantly
affecting the elderly, characterized by typical alterations in subchondral bone and cartilage …