Highly branched “bottlebrush” polymers are a class of macromolecules characterized by
side chains that are densely grafted from a backbone that is typically linear. Their unique …

Grafting density and graft distribution impact the chain dimensions and physical properties of
polymers. However, achieving precise control over these structural parameters presents …

Multicomponent molecular brushes containing amphiphilic polymer moieties are promising
objects of research of macromolecular chemistry. The development of stimulus-responsive …

The living anionic copolymerization of styrene (St) and 1, 1‐diphenylethylene (DPE)
derivatives were carried out to investigate how the DPE units are distributed along the …

Brush-type macromolecules (BMs) have attracted much attention over the past decades
because of their unique properties and potential applications in nanoscience, drug-delivery …

Block copolymers of polyisoprene and polystyrene are key materials for polymer
nanostructures as well as for several commercially established thermoplastic elastomers. In …

Due to their distinct steric hindrance, 1, 1-diphenylethylene (DPE) and its derivatives cannot
homopolymerize via living anionic polymerization and thus are advantageous for …

To investigate the specific strategy for sequence regulation with living anionic
polymerization, three sequence-defined polymers with similar number of SiH functional …

Living anionic polymerization (LAP) is the primary representative method of living
polymerization and exhibits the ability to synthesize sequence-regulated functionalized …

Bottlebrush networks (BBNs) are an exciting new class of materials with interesting physical
properties derived from their unique architecture. While great strides have been made in our …