Issue 8, 2011
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Polymer Chemistry

Optimizing the generation of narrow polydispersity ‘arm-first’ star polymers made using RAFT polymerization†‡

Julien Ferreira,a   Jay Syrett,b   Michael Whittaker,a   David Haddleton,b   Thomas P. Davis*a  and  Cyrille Boyer*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
E-mail: t.davis@unsw.edu.au, cboyer@unsw.edu.au

b Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Abstract

In this article, the synthesis of well-defined, narrow polydispersity (PDI < 1.2) star polymersviaRAFT polymerisation is detailed. An ‘arm-first’ method is described using a crosslinked nanogel core. The synthetic conditions and variables were thoroughly investigated and optimised so that nearly quantitative arm incorporation was found to occur. The parameters studied included polymerization time, the arm molecular weight, and the nature of the solvent and cross-linker.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1PY00102G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Mar 2011
Accepted
30 Mar 2011
First published
20 Apr 2011

Polym. Chem., 2011,2, 1671-1677

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Optimizing the generation of narrow polydispersity ‘arm-first’ star polymers made using RAFT polymerization

J. Ferreira, J. Syrett, M. Whittaker, D. Haddleton, T. P. Davis and C. Boyer, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 1671 DOI: 10.1039/C1PY00102G

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