More versatile route to block copolymers and other polymers of complex architecture by living radical polymerization: the RAFT process

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2071-2074

  Chong, Bill Y K ^a   Le, Tam P T ^a   Moad, Graeme ^a   Rizzardo, Ezio ^a   Thang, San H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; POLYSTYRENES;

LIVING RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; POLYDISPERSITY; REVERSIBLE ADDITION FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 13044256394     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma981472p     Document Type: Article

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