Polymerization and Kinetic Studies

Dear Colleagues,

In polymer chemistry, the study of polymerization kinetics is fundamental to the production of polymers. Polymerization is an important process of combining molecules to form polymer chains or even complex topological chains, in which bifunction or multifunction monomers react to form dimers, trimers, longer oligomers, and eventually long chain polymers. Most recently, the concept of precision polymer synthesis has emerged, which seeks to control all aspects of polymer structure and needs basic and advanced knowledge about the kinetics and reaction mechanism of their formation, i.e., mechanism of polymerization in different media, effect of reaction conditions, effect of modifying additives, etc.

This Topic Collection of Polymers on “Polymerization and Kinetic Studies” will be especially focused on the application of kinetic studies to precision polymerization and the use of insights derived from polymerization kinetics to the synthesis of new polymers and copolymers.

Prof. Dr. Shin-Ichi Yusa
Prof. Dr. Binyuan Liu
Collection Editors

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