Atom transfer radical polymerization

S Harrisson, R Whitfield, A Anastasaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is a synthetic method that harnesses radical
polymerization to yield well-defined polymers of controlled architecture from a wide range of …

Alternating styrene–propylene and styrene–ethylene copolymers prepared by photocatalytic decarboxylation

E Schué, DRL Rickertsen, AB Korpusik, A Adili… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthesis of olefin–styrene copolymers with defined architecture is challenging due to the
limitations associated with the inherent reactivity ratios for these monomers in radical or …

Alternating Methyl Methacrylate/n-Butyl Acrylate Copolymer Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

R Yin, Y Zhao, A Gorczyński, G Szczepaniak… - ACS Macro …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Poly (methyl methacrylate/n-butyl acrylate)[P (MMA/BA)] copolymer with an alternating
structure was synthesized via an activator regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET) atom …

Xanthates in RAFT polymerization

M Wang, JD Marty, M Destarac - … : Methods, Synthesis and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This bibliographic review of xanthate‐mediated RAFT polymerization underlines some
fundamental aspects of this class of singular transfer agents and exhaustively covers the …

Effect of hydrophilic monomer distribution on self‐assembly of a pH‐responsive copolymer: spheres, worms and vesicles from a single copolymer composition

J Zhang, B Farias‐Mancilla, I Kulai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A series of copolymers containing 50 mol% acrylic acid (AA) and 50 mol% butyl acrylate
(BA) but with differing composition profiles ranging from an AA‐BA diblock copolymer to a …

Influence of Chain Length of Gradient and Block Copoly (2‐oxazoline) s on Self‐Assembly and Drug Encapsulation

O Sedlacek, V Bardoula, E Vuorimaa‐Laukkanen… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Amphiphilic gradient copolymers represent a promising alternative to extensively used block
copolymers due to their facile one‐step synthesis by statistical copolymerization of …

Spontaneous Gradients by ATRP and RAFT: Interchangeable Polymerization Methods?

KGE Bradford, RD Gilbert, MASN Weerasinghe… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The spontaneous gradient polymerization was investigated by ATRP and RAFT. The model
monomers for both systems were methyl methacrylate (MMA) and ethyl acrylate (EA) …

Self-Assembly, Drug Encapsulation, and Cellular Uptake of Block and Gradient Copolymers of 2-Methyl-2-oxazine and 2-n-Propyl/butyl-2-oxazoline

D Babuka, K Kolouchova, L Loukotova… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled amphiphilic polymers have been extensively studied for various biomedical
applications, as they show advantageous properties for diagnosis and therapy. In this work …

Unexpected reactivity switch in the statistical copolymerization of 2-oxazolines and 2-oxazines enabling the one-step synthesis of amphiphilic gradient copolymers

O Sedlacek, K Lava, B Verbraeken… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Poly (2-oxazoline) s and, more recently, also poly (2-oxazine) s represent an emerging class
of polymers with a broad range of applications. Surprisingly, to date, the statistical …

The poly (propylene oxide-co-ethylene oxide) gradient is controlled by the polymerization method: determination of reactivity ratios by direct comparison of different …

J Blankenburg, E Kersten, K Maciol, M Wagner… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
An investigation of the highly relevant copolymerization of ethylene oxide (EO) and
propylene oxide (PO) by in situ1H NMR spectroscopy shows striking differences in the …