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Skandalis A, Sentoukas T, Selianitis D, Balafouti A, Pispas S. Using RAFT Polymerization Methodologies to Create Branched and Nanogel-Type Copolymers. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 17:1947. [PMID: 38730753 PMCID: PMC11084462 DOI: 10.3390/ma17091947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 04/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
Abstract
This review aims to highlight the most recent advances in the field of the synthesis of branched copolymers and nanogels using reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. RAFT polymerization is a reversible deactivation radical polymerization technique (RDRP) that has gained tremendous attention due to its versatility, compatibility with a plethora of functional monomers, and mild polymerization conditions. These parameters lead to final polymers with good control over the molar mass and narrow molar mass distributions. Branched polymers can be defined as the incorporation of secondary polymer chains to a primary backbone, resulting in a wide range of complex macromolecular architectures, like star-shaped, graft, and hyperbranched polymers and nanogels. These subcategories will be discussed in detail in this review in terms of synthesis routes and properties, mainly in solutions.
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- Athanasios Skandalis
- Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 11635 Athens, Greece; (D.S.); (A.B.)
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- Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, 34 M. Curie-Sklodowska Street, 41-819 Zabrze, Poland
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- Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 11635 Athens, Greece; (D.S.); (A.B.)
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- Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 11635 Athens, Greece; (D.S.); (A.B.)
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- Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 11635 Athens, Greece; (D.S.); (A.B.)
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Kurowska I, Amouroux B, Langlais M, Coutelier O, Coudret C, Destarac M, Marty JD. Versatile thiolactone-based conjugation strategies to polymer stabilizers for multifunctional upconverting nanoparticles aqueous dispersions. NANOSCALE 2022; 14:2238-2247. [PMID: 35080566 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr05548h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We describe here a new methodology for the synthesis of well-defined phosphonic acid-terminated poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and RAFT-derived poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) and poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) (PVCL) by amine-thiol-ene and amine-thiol-thiosulfonate conjugation strategies using a phosphonated thiolactone and their use to prepare stable, water-dispersible multifunctional upconverting luminescent nanohybrids.
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- Izabela Kurowska
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Ciołkowskiego 1k, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Bialystok, Ciołkowskiego 1k, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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- IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, 9 31062, France.
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Xia X, Suzuki R, Gao T, Isono T, Satoh T. One-step synthesis of sequence-controlled multiblock polymers with up to 11 segments from monomer mixture. Nat Commun 2022; 13:163. [PMID: 35013294 PMCID: PMC8748456 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27830-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Switchable polymerization holds considerable potential for the synthesis of highly sequence-controlled multiblock. To date, this method has been limited to three-component systems, which enables the straightforward synthesis of multiblock polymers with less than five blocks. Herein, we report a self-switchable polymerization enabled by simple alkali metal carboxylate catalysts that directly polymerize six-component mixtures into multiblock polymers consisting of up to 11 blocks. Without an external trigger, the catalyst polymerization spontaneously connects five catalytic cycles in an orderly manner, involving four anhydride/epoxide ring-opening copolymerizations and one L-lactide ring-opening polymerization, creating a one-step synthetic pathway. Following this autotandem catalysis, reasonable combinations of different catalytic cycles allow the direct preparation of diverse, sequence-controlled, multiblock copolymers even containing various hyperbranched architectures. This method shows considerable promise in the synthesis of sequentially and architecturally complex polymers, with high monomer sequence control that provides the potential for designing materials.
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- Xiaochao Xia
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, 400054, China.
- Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan
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- Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
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Hu L, Hao Q, Wang L, Cui Z, Fu P, Liu M, Qiao X, Pang X. The in situ “grafting from” approach for the synthesis of polymer brushes on upconversion nanoparticles via NIR-mediated RAFT polymerization. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0py01550d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Through NIR-mediated RAFT polymerization, surface growth of polymer brushes on UCNPs was realized based on an efficient in situ ligand exchange.
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- Lingjuan Hu
- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials
- Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou 450001
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Peng W, Cai Y, Fanslau L, Vana P. Nanoengineering with RAFT polymers: from nanocomposite design to applications. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py01172c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization is a powerful tool for the precise formation of macromolecular building blocks that can be used for the construction of well-defined nanocomposites.
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- Wentao Peng
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Kavand A, Anton N, Vandamme T, Serra CA, Chan-Seng D. Tuning polymers grafted on upconversion nanoparticles for the delivery of 5-fluorouracil. Eur Polym J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2020.109935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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