Precise Synthesis of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Brush with Well-Controlled Stereoregularity Using a Surface-Initiated Living Anionic Polymerization Method

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2071-2076

  Sato, Masanao ^a   Kato, Tomoki ^a   Ohishi, Tomoyuki ^a   Ishige, Ryohei ^a   Ohta, Noboru ^b   White, Kevin L ^a   Hirai, Tomoyasu ^a   Takahara, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; CHAINS; ESTERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIVING POLYMERIZATION; POLYDISPERSITY; SUBSTRATES;

END-TETHERED CHAINS; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; GRAFTING DENSITIES; LIVING ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; ORGANIZED STRUCTURE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); POLYDISPERSITY INDICES; SPHERICAL SUBSTRATES;

ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84962109161     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02773     Document Type: Article

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