Precision Polymer Synthesis
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2018) | Viewed by 26725
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer synthesis; green chemistry; photopolymerization; visible light catalysis; coordination network polymers; biomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural polymers, such as peptides and nucleic acids, are uniform polymers with precise monomer sequence and stereoregularity that provides for unique biological functions, which include motifs for molecular recognition (RGD tripeptide), biocatalysis (enzyme) and data storage (DNA). Many scientists have tried to emulate the precision of natural polymers with synthetic polymers owing to the additional opportunities provided by the broad chemical diversity of monomers, well-established polymerization processes, and their relatively simple manipulation. In the last 50 years, significant efforts have been devoted in the development of “living” polymerisation techniques, including anionic/cationic, controlled radical, ring-opening metathesis and coordination polymerizations. By using these techniques well-defined polymers are able to be synthesised with various architectures and controlled tacticity. Although these mechanisms usually allow fast and large scale synthesis of polymers, substantial experimental defects are still present, such as lack of precision, statistical distribution of monomers and the need for multiple purification steps. Attempts to produce synthetic materials with the structural sophistication and precision found in nature still remains elusive.
This Special Issue focuses on the current research frontiers of precision polymer synthesis and its characterization. Papers (research articles or reviews) are sought to discuss the latest research in the area or summarize selected areas of the field. The scope encompasses the precise synthesis and characterization of polymers using various polymerization techniques regardless of chain-growth or step-growth approaches, and synthetic chemical tools (click chemistry, diels-alder reactions and iterative exponential growth, etc), as well as separation systems (automated flash chromatography and repetitive column purification, etc). Of additional interests are new polymer structures and functions resulting from the synthesized polymer materials featuring specific physical and chemical properties and self-assembling behaviours, and new insights on the structure-properties relationships leading to potential applications.
Dr. Jiangtao XuGuest Editor
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Keywords
- Controlled/“living” polymerization
- Sequence-controlled polymers
- Stereo-regulated polymers
- Mechanism of polymerization
- Polymerization kinetics
- Polymer topological architectures
- Flow polymer synthesis
- Multiblock copolymers
- Polymer functionalization
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