Issue 6, 2018

Recent advances in the construction of cyclic grafted polymers and their potential applications

Abstract

A cyclic grafted polymer, as a novel and unique kind of polymer, possesses a cyclic backbone and linear grafted side chains. Their physical properties and conformations are controlled by steric hindrance from the grafted side chains. As a cyclic derivative, cyclic grafted polymers have been successfully prepared and characterized within the past decade. To the best of our knowledge, cyclic grafted polymers have not been systematically generalized and summarized. In this review, we illustrate the considerable advances in the architectural construction of cyclic grafted polymers with three different approaches, including “grafting through”, “grafting onto” and “grafting from”. Additionally, their potential applications are also briefly discussed.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in the construction of cyclic grafted polymers and their potential applications

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
08 Sep 2017
Accepted
06 Jan 2018
First published
08 Jan 2018

Polym. Chem., 2018,9, 677-686

Recent advances in the construction of cyclic grafted polymers and their potential applications

S. Zhang, Y. Tezuka, Z. Zhang, N. Li, W. Zhang and X. Zhu, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 677 DOI: 10.1039/C7PY01544E

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