Themed collection Polymer Chemistry Recent Review Articles, 2024

This mini-review summarizes the recent progress in the research field of polyradicals that are designed and prepared to obtain strong ferromagnetic coupling.

In this Minireview, we discuss recent implementations of orthogonal neat polymerization reactions for emerging applications including 3D printing, multimaterials, optical materials, and photo-responsive materials.

A wide variety of latent catalysts are elucidated in vitrimer chemistry.

Polymers based on 1,3-diene monomers play a pivotal role in many commercial elastomers and thermoplastic elastomers. This review summarizes the state of the art and recent developments in the living anionic polymerization of dienes.

Hydrolysis stability of labile linkages in polymers can be tuned through careful selection of substituent groups near these linkages to selectively release active substances.

A materials tetrahedron framework is applied to PHA biopolymers to highlight design challenges and frame potential future research exploring structure, property, processing, and performance relationships.

Patterning materials have advanced significantly to achieve high-resolution fabrication of integrated circuits for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Emerging trends in the chemistry of polymeric resists for EUV lithography are summarized.

The IEDDA click reaction plays an important role in the fabrication and functionalization of polymeric materials.

From CNSL to polyols.

This review describes recent advances in polymer truxinates and truxillates and provides the necessary background in synthetic methodologies and properties to understand current developments and envision future applications.

The recent advancements in the synthesis of sustainable polyesters mediated by base/(thio)urea binary catalysts are discussed, focusing on the catalytic mechanism, activity and selectivity as well as the current challenges and future directions.

Recent advances in synthetic strategies for single-location shell-sheddable and dual-location shell-sheddable/core-degradable block copolymer nanoassemblies exhibitng acidic pH or/and glutathione responsefor effective drug delivery.

Lipid–polymer hybrid nanoparticles are rapidly emerging as a major class of efficient delivery systems for biomedical applications. This review showcases and discusses the designs and major advances of lipid–polymer hybrids for genome editing strategies.

The rational integration of non-cationic building blocks into cationic polymers can be devised to enhance the performance of the resulting gene delivery vectors, improving cell targeting behavior, uptake, endosomal escape, toxicity, and transfection efficiency.

This paper explores the innovative realm of thermoresponsive ionogels, which leverage the unique properties of ionic liquids, such as high ionic conductivity, robust stability, and minimal volatility.

Radical decarboxylation has emerged as a powerful tool in polymer chemistry. This review discusses the history of radical decarboxylation and its applications in polymer synthesis, crosslinking, functionalisation, degradation and depolymerisation.

In this review, various strategies of enzyme-catalysed RAFT polymerization are discussed for the synthesis of sustainable and precision polymers via green polymer chemistry.

A brief overview of main strategies to improve the gene transfection efficiency of PCVs recently and their applications in certain diseases.

Presently there is much interest in the synthesis of degradable, more sustainable polymers from resources that minimize the use of petroleum-based feedstocks.

This review summarizes the recent advances in PISA for the fabrication of polymer assemblies-based nanostructured hydrogels, including colloidal hydrogels, multiphase hydrogels, and micelle-crosslinked hydrogels.

This review discusses the physical-, chemical recycling and biodegradation processes and mechanisms of PET, proposing effecting compromise between its overall properties and conferred intrinsic biodegradability by modified monomer polymerisation.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of solid-state polymer electrolytes performance characteristics of various chemical structures such as ethers, esters, nitrile and vinylidene fluoride.

This review discusses the self-assembly of amphiphilic linear and various non-linear polymers such as star and cyclic architectures, highlighting how polymer architecture impacts self-assembly behavior.

Light-induced polymerization has become a very attractive technology for advanced manufacturing of polymers.

This tutorial review of linear viscoelasticity is targeted at polymer chemists working with covalent adaptable networks. It provides an overview of concepts, analysis, misconceptions, and best practices for rheological experiments.

Characterization of polymer networks presents unique challenges due to the insolubility of the materials, but this also enables characterization by new techniques that take advantage of the bulk network structure.

We describe the theory and application of SEC-MALS with minimal equations and a focus on synthetic polymer characterization.

Allyl-containing bis(oxazolidone)s, obtained by depolymerization of polycarbonates, are polymerized with dithiols to deliver functional poly(oxazolidone)s, easily derived by thioether oxidation to sulfoxides or sulfones, or by S-alkylation.