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Polymers and light: a love–hate relationship

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Controlling primary chain dispersity in network polymers: elucidating the effect of dispersity on degradation

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Xanthate-supported photo-iniferter (XPI)-RAFT polymerization: facile and rapid access to complex macromolecules

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Photocontrolled RAFT polymerization: past, present, and future

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Rate retardation trends in RAFT – an emerging monomer classification tool?

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Light-accelerated depolymerization catalyzed by Eosin Y

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Photons and photocatalysts as limiting reagents for PET-RAFT photopolymerization

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Pentafluorophenyl vinyl ketone: Synthesis, radical polymerization, copolymerization, and polymer degradation under ultra‐violet irradiation

Polina M. Kaletina, Andrey S. Vinogradov, Nikita O. Shaparenko, Dmitriy A. Parkhomenko, Inna K. Shundrina, Tatyana V. Mezhenkova and Elena G. Bagryanskaya

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Network Polymer Properties Engineered Through Polymer Backbone Dispersity and Structure

Ibrahim O. Raji, Obed J. Dodo, Nirob K. Saha, Mary Eisenhart, Kevin M. Miller, Richard Whitfield, Athina Anastasaki and Dominik Konkolewicz

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2024, 63
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Recyclable/degradable materials via the insertion of labile/cleavable bonds using a comonomer approach

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Wavelength-Resolved Oxime Ester Photoinitiator Decay in Radical Polymerization

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Changing Self‐Assembly Through Degradation: Phenyl Vinyl Ketone Polymer Nanoparticles Under Light

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Angewandte Chemie, 2025, 137
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Changing Self‐Assembly Through Degradation: Phenyl Vinyl Ketone Polymer Nanoparticles Under Light

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Network Polymer Properties Engineered Through Polymer Backbone Dispersity and Structure

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Angewandte Chemie, 2024, 136
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Microenvironments as an Explanation for the Mismatch between Photochemical Absorptivity and Reactivity

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Spontaneous Gradients by ATRP and RAFT: Interchangeable Polymerization Methods?

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Temperature Effects in Conventional and RAFT Photopolymerization

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Plenty of Space in the Backbone: Radical Ring‐Opening Polymerization

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Controlling photodegradation in vinyl ketone polymers

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