Progress in Controlled Radical Polymerization: Materials and Applications

Content: PREFACE ; 1. CONTROLLING POLYMER PRIMARY STRUCTURE USING CRP: SYNTHESIS OF SEQUENCE-CONTROLLED AND SEQUENCE-DEFINED POLYMERS ; MIRELA ZAMFIR AND JEAN-FRANCOIS LUTZ ; 2. RAFT POLYMERIZATION: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR THE SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF OLIGOMERS ; MEILIANA SIAUW, BRIAN S. HAWKETT, AND SEBASTIEN PERRIER ; 3. NEW ARCHITECTURES AND APPLICATIONS OF ORGANOBORON POLYMERS PREPARED VIA CONTROLLED RADICAL POLYMERIZATION ; FEI CHENG AND FRIEDER JAKLE ; 4. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PE-B-POEGMA COPOLYMERS PREPARED BY LINEAR/HYPERBRANCHED TELECHELIC POLYETHYLENE-INITIATED ATRP OF OLIGO(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) METHACRYLATES ; PINGWEI LIU, WEIQIANG LU, WEN-JUN WANG, BO-GENG LI, ZHIBIN YE, AND SHIPING ZHU ; 5. MICROGEL-CORE STAR POLYMERS AS FUNCTIONAL COMPARTMENTS FOR CATALYSIS AND MOLECULAR RECOGNITION ; TAKAYA TERASHIMA AND MITSUO SAWAMOTO ; 6. SYNTHESIS AND SEC CHARACTERIZATION OF POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) STAR POLYMERS ; JAMES A. BURNS, DAVID M. HADDLETON, AND C. REMZI BECER ; 7. SYNTHESIS OF ?-END FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS THROUGH TELLURIUM-METAL TRANSMETALLATION REACTION ; EIICHI KAYAHARA AND SHIGERU YAMAGO ; 8. POLY(GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE-BLOCK-STYRENE) FOR PHOTOLITHOGRAPHICALLY PATTERNABLE RESIST MATERIALS ; QIN LOU AND DEVON A. SHIPP ; 9. NANOSCALE FUNCTIONAL PATTERNING OF THIN FILMS USING BLOCK COPOLYMERS PREPARED THROUGH CRP ; BRIGITTE VOIT, MARIA RIEDEL, AND JAN STADERMANN ; 10. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSEQUIOXANE-CORE STAR POLYSTYRENE VIA NITROXIDE-MEDIATED POLYMERIZATION ; DAVID GLE, TRANG N. T. PHAN, VALERIE MONIER, LAURENCE CHARLES, DENIS BERTIN, AND DIDIER GIGMES ; 11. POLYMER?INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS USING CONTROLLED RADICAL POLYMERIZATION ; A. O. PATIL, H. DONG, A. H. TSOU, AND S. BODIGE ; 12. APPLICATIONS OF SURFACE INITIATED ATRP TO THE PREPARATION OF POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES FOR ANTIFOULING, ADHESION CONTROL, FRICTION CONTROL ; MOYOTASU KOBAYASHI, YUKI TERAYAMA, TATSUYA ISHIKAWA, MASAMI TERADA, HIROE SOEJIMA, DAIKI MURAKAMI, AND ATSUSHI TAKAHARA ; 13. SURFACE INTIATED ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATIONS FROM INDIUM TIN OXIDE ELECTRODES: ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF POLYMER BRUSHES ; BO YUN KIM, R. CLAYTON SHALLCROSS, NEAL R. ARMSTRONG, HYO-JU KIM, WOO JIN CHUNG, RABINDRA SAHOO, KOOKHEON CHAR, PHILIP T. DIRLAM, PHILIP J. COSTANZO, AND JEFFREY PYUN ; 14. SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZED AND SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZABLE POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE) MEMBRANES VIA CONTROLLED/LIVING RADICAL POLYMERIZATION AND CLICK CHEMISTRY ; TAO CAI, KOON-GEE NEOH, AND EN-TANG KANG ; 15. GRAFTING OF POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) ON THE SURFACE OF CYLINDRICAL MESOPORES OF ORDERED SILICA VIA ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION ; LIANG CAO AND MICHAL KRUK ; 16. STRUCTURING OF POLYMER BRUSHES AND SURFACE NITROXIDE EXCHANGE REACTIONS ; HENDRIK WAGNER, MAIKE BECKER, LIFENG CHI, AND ARMIDO STUDER ; 17. SURFACE MODIFICATION OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES WITH BIOACTIVE GLYCOPOLYMERS ; ANDRE PFAFF AND AXEL H. E. MULLER ; 18. ACTIVITY CONTROL OF MUSSEL GLUE DERIVED ENZYMES: A STUDY ON THERMORESPONSIVE TYROSINASE-PNIPAM CONJUGATES ; PATRICK WILKE, WILLIAM L. A. BROOKS, ROMINA KUHNLE, BRENT SUMERLIN, AND HANS G. BORNER ; 19. NEW DESIGN OF THIOL-RESPONSIVE DEGRADABLE BLOCK COPOLYMER MICELLES AS CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY VEHICLES ; QIAN ZHANG, SAMUEL ALEKSANIAN, ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, AND JUNG KWON OH ; 20. (NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID)-END-FUNCTIONALIZED POLYSTYRENES SYNTHESIZED BY ATRP ; MOHAMMAD ABDUL KADIR, HONG Y. CHO, BONG-SOO KIM, YOUNG-ROK KIM, SUN-GU LEE, UNYONG JEONG, AND HYUN-JONG PAIK ; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES