The synthesis of functional star copolymers as an illustration of the importance of controlling polymer structures in the design of new materials

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Nanostructured functional materials prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization (2009, background): “They consist of several linear polymer chains linked together at one central core (atom, small molecule or particle”
Synthesis of functional polymers with controlled architecture by CRP of monomers in the presence of cross-linkers: From stars to gels (2009, methodology): “After this pioneering work on the synthesis of star polymers with a cross-linked core by using ATRP, recent developments in this area mainly focused on two aspects [62–64]: (1) exploration of new synthetic methodologies to achieve better structural control over the topology of the star polymers and ”