Complex Macromolecular Chimeras

Complex Macromolecular Architectures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 461-489

  Iatrou, Hermis ^a   Pitsikalis, Marinos ^a   Sakellariou, Georgios ^a   Hadjichristidis, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

amino acid N carboxyanhydrides; Complex chimeras; Controlled living polymerization; Dendritic chimeras; Graft chimeras; Living polymerization; Macromolecular chimeras; Multiblock chimeras; Ring opening polymerization; Star chimeras

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885158294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470825150.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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