Photocontrolled living polymerizations

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 467-470

  Tanabe, Makoto ^a,b   Vandermeulen, Guido W M ^a,c   Chan, Wing Yan ^a   Cyr, Paul W ^a   Vanderark, Lawrence ^a   Rider, David A ^a   Manners, Ian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; SILICON;

FERROCENOPHANES; LIGANDS; REACTION TEMPERATURE;

MONOMERS;

EID: 33744918755     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1649     Document Type: Article

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