Advance in polymer materials is always desiring new polymerization methods that can use inexpensive monomers to achieve better controlled polymer structures and architectures. When selecting the suitable monomers, one of the desiring criteria is that the monomers can involve self-accelerating reactions to efficiently connect building blocks into one macromolecular structure. This presentation discusses our recent interest on utilizing several functional monomers with self-accelerating reaction features for synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with high degree of polymerization, molecular brushes with high grafting density of side chains and linear polymers with high molecular weights with no need of stoichiometric balance of monomers. These polymers are successfully applied as unimolecular nanocontainers for encapsulation and as membrane materials for efficient gas separation of CO<sub>2</sub> from CH<sub>4</sub>.

Utilizing functional monomers with self-accelerating reactions to explore polymers with new structures and functions

2019 Spring National Meeting

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