This study employs acid in RAFT polymerization to enhance multiblock copolymer synthesis, achieving near-quantitative monomer conversion, while suppressing low molecular weight tailing, and maintaining dispersity constant.
Visible light-regulated photocontrolled cationic RAFT polymerization has been successfully developed for the synthesis of fluorinated polymers.
RAFT step-growth polymerization via the Z-group approach was developed, offering a facile method to prepare deconstructable (multiblock) polymers by combining RAFT chain-growth polymerization and RAFT interchange.
Demonstrated is the successful A2 + B2 RAFT step-growth polymerization of bis-acrylamides. The synthesized poly(acrylamides) can be degraded by simply adding excess ethanolamine or PBu3.
The synthesis of polymer-grafted graphene oxide (GO) using a branched radical polymerization strategy is described.