of reactive polymers (those with functional groups) including polymers and other polymers with specific chemical reactivity or other functionality. The...

eventually long chain polymers. Many naturally-occurring and some synthetic polymers are produced by step-growth polymerization, e.g. polyesters, polyamides...

the functional groups present, and sometimes also on whether the monomer is linear or cyclic. Chain-growth polymers are usually addition polymers by Carothers'...

Smart polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers or functional polymers are high-performance polymers that change according to the environment they are in....

that occurs when polymers reacts with atmospheric oxygen. Aerobic degradation occurs gradually at room temperature, but almost all polymers are at risk of...

chemistry), a molecule's functionality has a decisive influence on its reactivity. In polymer chemistry, the functionality of a monomer refers to its...

of the same functionality they are termed di-end-functional polymers. All polymers resulting from living polymerization are end-functional but may not...

polymers with functional groups incorporated in the backbone chain that cannot otherwise be synthesized via conventional chain-growth polymerization of...

fast method for PEDOT: Photoinduced step-growth polymerization of EDOT". Reactive and Functional Polymers. 182: 105464. doi:10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2022...

In polymer science, star-shaped polymers are the simplest class of branched polymers with a general structure consisting of several (at least three) linear...

ISBN 1569901570, ISBN 978-1569901571 Reactive Polymers Fundamentals and Applications: A Concise Guide to Industrial Polymers (Plastics Design Library), William...

atoms in a functional group are linked to each other and to the rest of the molecule by covalent bonds. For repeating units of polymers, functional groups...

are often applied to polyurethanes. Johannes Karl Fink, ed. (2013). Reactive Polymers Fundamentals and Applications. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/C2012-0-02516-1...

cotton, glass and polyethylene. The highly reactive carbene group removes the need for different functional groups depending on the substrate to be dyed...

properties, both synthetic and natural polymers play essential and ubiquitous roles in everyday life. Polymers range from familiar synthetic plastics...

RAFT polymerization can be used to design polymers of complex architectures, such as linear block copolymers, comb-like, star, brush polymers, dendrimers...

thickness with solvent insoluble polymers. In as early as the 1870s "polymers" formed by this process were known, but these polymers were initially thought of...

to their origin: biopolymers synthetic polymers inorganic polymers Biopolymers are the structural and functional materials that comprise most of the organic...

needed to actually create a polymer gel. Since steric hindrance effects prevent each functional group from being equally reactive and intramolecular reactions...

In polymer chemistry, condensation polymers are any kind of polymers whose process of polymerization involves a condensation reaction (i.e. a small molecule...

and polycyclooctene through ring-opening metathesis polymerization". Reactive and Functional Polymers. 71 (11): 1096–1101. Bibcode:2011RFPol..71.1096Y....

copolymers. Additionally many nylon polymers are miscible with one another allowing the creation of blends. Production of polymers requires the repeated joining...

all polymers and the functionality of those end groups can be important in determining the application of polymers. Each type of polymerization (free...

suggested by Barry Trost. Living polymerizations are used in the commercial synthesis of many polymers. Copolymers are polymers consisting of multiple different...

method leads to polymers with controlled molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. Cowie, J.; Arrighi,V. Polymers: Chemistry and Physics...

styrene, and then subsequently polymerizing methyl methacrylate (MMA) from the reactive end of the polystyrene chains. This polymer is a "diblock copolymer"...

polymerizing manner endows sequence-controlled polymers with particular properties and thereby, sequence-controlled polymers-based applications (e.g. information...

in generating reactive intermediates for the cyclization of unsaturated substrates. Radical hydrothiolation of an unsaturated functional group indirectly...

groups. The use of multi-functional initiators facilitates the synthesis of lower-arm star polymers and telechelic polymers. External visible light stimulation...

Polysiloxane polymers with reactive side group functionality such as vinyl, acrylate, epoxy, mercaptan, or amine, are used to create thermoset polymer matrix...