Issue 2, 2011
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Polymer Chemistry

Design of complex polymeric architectures and nanostructured materials/hybrids by living radical polymerization of hydroxylated monomers†

Hamilton Kakwerea  and  Sébastien Perrier*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Building F11, NSW, Australia
E-mail: sebastien.perrier@sydney.edu.au
Fax: +61 2 9351 3329
Tel: +61 2 9351 3366

Abstract

We review the synthesis and application of polymers produced from hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) and hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA). Since the first reports in the 1960's on the use of HEMA to produce hydrogels, HEA and HEMA have been extensively used to generate a variety of polymeric architectures and nanostructured materials. In this review, we cover the various conditions of polymerization (monomer purification, solvent, polymer characterization and temperatures), and we specifically look at the use of living radical polymerization to generate well-defined polymers. We then focus on the materials obtained from HEMA and HEA, by considering micelles and nanoparticles, polymeric architectures, hybrid structures and gels.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0PY00160K
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
20 May 2010
Accepted
22 Jun 2010
First published
06 Aug 2010

Polym. Chem., 2011,2, 270-288

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Design of complex polymeric architectures and nanostructured materials/hybrids by living radical polymerization of hydroxylated monomers

H. Kakwere and S. Perrier, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 270 DOI: 10.1039/C0PY00160K

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