50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymers with Complex Architectures

G Polymeropoulos, G Zapsas, K Ntetsikas… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The scope of this Perspective is to highlight innovative contributions in the synthesis of well-
defined complex macromolecular architectures and to emphasize the importance of these …

Property-guided generation of complex polymer topologies using variational autoencoders

S Jiang, AB Dieng, MA Webb - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The complexity and diversity of polymer topologies, or chain architectures, present
substantial challenges in predicting and engineering polymer properties. Although machine …

C1 polymerization: a unique tool towards polyethylene-based complex macromolecular architectures

D Wang, Z Zhang, N Hadjichristidis - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent developments in organoborane initiated C1 polymerization (chain grows by one
atom at a time) of ylides open unique horizons towards well-defined/perfectly linear …

Synthesis of poly (OEOMA) using macromonomers via “grafting-through” ATRP

HY Cho, P Krys, K Szczesniak, H Schroeder… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of oligo (ethylene oxide) methyl ether
methacrylate (OEOMA, M n= 950 or 2080; OEOMA is also termed poly (ethylene glycol) …

Precise Synthesis of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers from ω-End-Norbornyl Polystyrene and Poly(4-tert-butoxystyrene) via Living Anionic Polymerization and Ring …

YG Yu, CG Chae, MJ Kim, HB Seo, RH Grubbs… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A facile and efficient synthetic grafting-through strategy for preparing well-defined
bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs) was developed through a combination of living …

Tetraphenylethene-functionalized polyethylene-based polymers with aggregation-induced emission

Y Jiang, N Hadjichristidis - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
A novel synthetic strategy toward a series of tetraphenylethene (TPE)-functionalized
polyethylene-based homo/copolymers is presented. Tris (3-(4-(1, 2, 2-triphenylvinyl) …

Polymer precursor strategy toward the precise synthesis of uniform hairy carbon dots with tunable sizes and size effects over their fluorescence

C Huang, M Feng, X Zhu, Q Zhou, S Zeng… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A polymeric precursor strategy was developed toward precise synthesis of uniform and size-
tunable hairy fluorescent carbon dots (C-dots, CDs). The strategy was achieved by (i) the …

Well-defined polyethylene-based random, block, and bilayered molecular cobrushes

H Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Gnanou, N Hadjichristidis - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Novel well-defined polyethylene-based random, block, and bilayered molecular cobrushes
were synthesized through the macromonomer strategy. Two steps were involved in this …

Well-defined bilayered molecular cobrushes with internal polyethylene blocks and ω-hydroxyl-functionalized polyethylene homobrushes

H Zhang, N Hadjichristidis - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Novel well-defined bilayered molecular cobrushes with internal polyethylene blocks, P
(PEcore-b-PScorona)(PE: polyethylene; PS: polystyrene), and ω-hydroxyl-functionalized …

[HTML][HTML] In-situ monitoring of cyclic olefin ring-opening metathesis polymerization by Raman spectroscopy: An effective tool for functional polymer and copolymer …

Y Pan, T Li, Y Zhou, L Li - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
Kinetics of ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclic olefins and their
functional derivatives using Grubbs catalysts have been effectively monitored via Raman …