Controlled multi-vinyl monomer homopolymerization through vinyl oligomer combination as a universal approach to hyperbranched architectures

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Tianyu ^a   Zheng, Yu ^a   Poly, Julien ^b   Wang, Wenxin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; POLYMER; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

GROWTH RATE; KINETIC ENERGY; POLYMERIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; POLYMERIZATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878686069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2887     Document Type: Article

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