Mesoporous silica nanoparticles: Properties and strategies for enhancing clinical effect

AN Frickenstein, JM Hagood, CN Britten, BS Abbott… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Due to the theragnostic potential of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs), these were
extensively investigated as a novel approach to improve clinical outcomes. Boasting an …

Controlled radical polymerization in dispersed systems for biological applications

P Gurnani, S Perrier - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymeric nanoparticles show great promise in a range of biomedical applications,
improving pharmacokinetic properties, dose requirements and immune response in drug …

Evolution and future directions of metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization

EH Discekici, A Anastasaki, J Read de Alaniz… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The increasing impact of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in fields beyond
traditional polymer science has necessitated the development of alternative strategies for …

Heteroatom‐Doped Carbon Dots (CDs) as a Class of Metal‐Free Photocatalysts for PET‐RAFT Polymerization under Visible Light and Sunlight

J Jiang, G Ye, Z Wang, Y Lu, J Chen… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A key challenge of photoregulated living radical polymerization is develo** efficient and
robust photocatalysts. Now carbon dots (CDs) have been exploited for the first time as metal …

Aqueous RAFT photopolymerization with oxygen tolerance

S Shanmugam, J Xu, C Boyer - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
The emergence of light regulated controlled/living radical polymerization adds a new layer
of control over polymerization. Light mediated polymerizations afford simple and facile route …

Recent advances in RAFT-mediated surfactant-free emulsion polymerization

J Zhou, H Yao, J Ma - Polymer Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Advances in the understanding and application of reversible addition–fragmentation chain
transfer (RAFT) polymerization in surfactant-free emulsion systems have been made over …

Single-electron transfer living radical polymerization platform to practice, develop, and invent

G Lligadas, S Grama, V Percec - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The most fundamental aspects of single-electron transfer (SET) principles are presented.
They are discussed according to different definitions used by expert practitioners and are …

Universal conditions for the controlled polymerization of acrylates, methacrylates, and styrene via Cu (0)-RDRP

R Whitfield, A Anastasaki, V Nikolaou… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) typically requires various parameters to be
optimized in order to achieve a high degree of control over molecular weight and dispersity …

Complex polymer topologies and polymer—nanoparticle hybrid films prepared via surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization

P Mocny, HA Klok - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Advances in controlled radical polymerization over the past two decades have transformed
the ability to produce molecularly well-defined, chain-end tethered polymer brush films. The …

Aqueous copper (II) photoinduced polymerization of acrylates: Low copper concentration and the importance of sodium halide salts

GR Jones, R Whitfield, A Anastasaki… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced metal-mediated radical polymerization is a rapidly develo** technique
which allows for the synthesis of macromolecules with defined molecular weight and narrow …