Greener solvent systems for copper wire-mediated living radical polymerisation

Green Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 104-114

  Shibaeva, Oxana ^a   Champagne, Pascale ^a   Cunningham, Michael F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative solvents; Polymer functionalisation; Polymerisation

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COPPER; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ETHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES; WIRE;

ALTERNATIVE SOLVENTS; COPPER WIRES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GREENER SOLVENTS; LIVING RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; POLYMER FUNCTIONALIZATION; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SOLVENT SYSTEM; SOLVENT VOLUME; SULPHOXIDE;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 85017595826     PISSN: 20491220     EISSN: 20491239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/jgrma.16.00010     Document Type: Article

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