Synthesis of polymers with on-demand sequence structures via dually switchable and interconvertible polymerizations

Ze Zhang; Tian-You Zeng; Lei Xia; Chun-Yan Hong; De-Cheng Wu; Ye-Zi You

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05000-2

Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Synthesis of polymers with on-demand sequence structures via dually switchable and interconvertible polymerizations

Ze Zhang,
Tian-You Zeng,
Lei Xia,
Chun-Yan Hong,
De-Cheng Wu,
Ye-Zi You

Affiliations

Ze Zhang: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Tian-You Zeng: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Lei Xia: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Chun-Yan Hong: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
De-Cheng Wu: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ye-Zi You: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05000-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The synthesis of polymers with on-demand sequence structures is difficult but highly desirable. Here the authors show a dual switchable and controlled interconvertible polymerization involving two orthogonal polymerizations that are switched ON/OFF independent of each other with an external stimulus.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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