Up in the air: oxygen tolerance in controlled/living radical polymerisation

J Yeow, R Chapman, AJ Gormley… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The requirement for deoxygenation in controlled/living radical polymerisation (CLRP) places
significant limitations on its widespread implementation by necessitating the use of large …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a second update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian journal of chemistry, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a second update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a mechanism of …

Synthetic biomaterials from metabolically derived synthons

NG Ricapito, C Ghobril, H Zhang, MW Grinstaff… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The utility of metabolic synthons as the building blocks for new biomaterials is based on the
early application and success of hydroxy acid based polyesters as degradable sutures and …

Living in the fast lane—High throughput controlled/living radical polymerization

S Oliver, L Zhao, AJ Gormley, R Chapman… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Combinatorial and high throughput (HTP) methodologies have long been used by the
pharmaceutical industry to accelerate the rate of drug discovery. HTP techniques can also …

Benchtop Preparation of Polymer Brushes by SI-PET-RAFT: The Effect of the Polymer Composition and Structure on Inhibition of a Pseudomonas Biofilm

G Ng, M Li, J Yeow, K Jung, CW Pester… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a high-throughput method for producing surface-tethered polymeric brushes on
glass substrates via surface-initiated photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition …

Automation of controlled/living radical polymerization

M Tamasi, S Kosuri, J DiStefano… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Controlled/living radical polymerization (CLRP) techniques are widely utilized to synthesize
advanced and controlled synthetic polymers for chemical and biological applications. While …

Ultrafast resorbing polymers for use as carriers for cortical neural probes

D Lewitus, KL Smith, W Shain, J Kohn - Acta biomaterialia, 2011 - Elsevier
We have identified a polymeric system based on a novel tyrosine-derived terpolymer that
offers desirable insertion capability for flexible neural prosthetic devices. To test this concept …

A critical overview of sensors for monitoring polymerizations

GE Fonseca, MA Dubé… - Macromolecular Reaction …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The available on‐line and in‐line sensor technologies developed for polymerization
reactors from 1990 until today are discussed and critically reviewed. About 600 references …

Coating flexible probes with an ultra fast degrading polymer to aid in tissue insertion

M Lo, S Wang, S Singh, VB Damodaran… - Biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
We report a fabrication process for coating neural probes with an ultrafast degrading
polymer to create consistent and reproducible devices for neural tissue insertion. The rigid …

One pot synthesis of higher order quasi-block copolymer libraries via sequential RAFT polymerization in an automated synthesizer

JJ Haven, C Guerrero-Sanchez, DJ Keddie… - Polymer …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently developed sequential reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT)
polymerization protocols allow the rapid, fully unattended preparation of quasi-block …