Polymers with designer architectures prepared by 'living' radical polymerization (LRP) have recently invoked the interest of academia and industry. The various architectures that can be prepared in bulk or solution are now left up to the imagination, and moreover the applications for such architectures are slowly being realized over a wide area of industries. 'Living' radical polymerization offers the possibility for the preparation of well-defined polymer architectures with novel microstructures. Importantly, these architectures can be made through self-aggregation or direct preparation in a water environment, which opens up a new class of polymer materials for use as specialty polymers in the biomedical area.The seminar will present work on the synthesis of complex polymer architectures using LRP and 'click' coupling reactions and their self-aggregation in water. Examples will be given for the use of such nanostructures in biological applications. We will also report a new approach to control the formation of a variety of 3D structures at high weight fractions of polymer in water from a single diblock.

Polymer architectures and nanostructures generated via living radical polymerization

244th National Meeting (2012)

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