Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (Controlled/living radical polymerization): From discovery to materials design and applications

N Corrigan, K Jung, G Moad, CJ Hawker… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) processes, such as atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP), reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) …

Toward green atom transfer radical polymerization: current status and future challenges

S Dworakowska, F Lorandi, A Gorczyński… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible‐deactivation radical polymerizations (RDRPs) have revolutionized synthetic
polymer chemistry. Nowadays, RDRPs facilitate design and preparation of materials with …

Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly

A Belluati, S Jimaja, RJ Chadwick, C Glynn… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial cells are biomimetic microstructures that mimic functions of natural cells, can be
applied as building blocks for molecular systems engineering, and host synthetic biology …

Synthesizing biomaterials in living organisms

X Zhang, J Wang, Y Zhang, Z Yang, J Gao… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Living organisms fabricate biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins by the self-
assembly process. The research on the mechanism of biomacromolecule formation also …

Macromolecular engineering by atom transfer radical polymerization

K Matyjaszewski, NV Tsarevsky - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This Perspective presents recent advances in macromolecular engineering enabled by
ATRP. They include the fundamental mechanistic and synthetic features of ATRP with …

Tyrosine residues initiated photopolymerization in living organisms

M Zhu, S Wang, Z Li, J Li, Z Xu, X Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Towards intracellular engineering of living organisms, the development of new
biocompatible polymerization system applicable for an intrinsically non-natural …

Aqueous photoinduced living/controlled polymerization: tailoring for bioconjugation

J Xu, K Jung, NA Corrigan, C Boyer - Chemical Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a photoinduced living polymerization technique able to polymerize a large range
of monomers, including methacrylates, acrylates and acrylamides, in water and biological …

Enzyme catalysis for reversible deactivation radical polymerization

R Li, W Kong, Z An - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme catalysis has been increasingly utilized in reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (Enz‐RDRP) on account of its mildness, efficiency, and sustainability. In this …

Stimuli-sensitive polymer prodrug nanocarriers by reversible-deactivation radical polymerization

L Guerassimoff, M Ferrere, A Bossion… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer prodrugs are based on the covalent linkage of therapeutic molecules to a polymer
structure which avoids the problems and limitations commonly encountered with traditional …

Recent advances in RAFT polymerization: novel initiation mechanisms and optoelectronic applications

X Tian, J Ding, B Zhang, F Qiu, X Zhuang, Y Chen - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) is considered to be one of most
famous reversible deactivation radical polymerization protocols. Benefiting from its living or …