TY - CHAP
T1 - Miktoarm Star (μ-Star) Polymers
T2 - A Successful Story
AU - Iatrou, Hermis
AU - Avgeropoulos, Apostolos
AU - Sakellariou, Georgios
AU - Pitsikalis, Marinos
AU - Hadjichristidis, Nikos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The term miktoarm stars (coming from the Greek word μιτσ meaning mixed) was adopted in 1992 by our group for star polymers with either chemical (e.g., A2B), molecular weight (e.g., A2A′), topological (e.g., (AB)2-junction-(BA)2), or functional group (e.g., AFA2) asymmetry. The first μ-stars synthesized by anionic polymerization, on the one hand, guided polymer chemists working with other types of polymerization techniques towards this direction and, on the other hand, helped polymer physicists to carry out experiments and develop theories on the influence of the architecture on the morphology of block copolymers. Synthetic strategies based on anionic polymerization, as well as a few examples showing the influence of the miktoarm structure on the morphology of block copolymers, are reviewed in this chapter.
AB - The term miktoarm stars (coming from the Greek word μιτσ meaning mixed) was adopted in 1992 by our group for star polymers with either chemical (e.g., A2B), molecular weight (e.g., A2A′), topological (e.g., (AB)2-junction-(BA)2), or functional group (e.g., AFA2) asymmetry. The first μ-stars synthesized by anionic polymerization, on the one hand, guided polymer chemists working with other types of polymerization techniques towards this direction and, on the other hand, helped polymer physicists to carry out experiments and develop theories on the influence of the architecture on the morphology of block copolymers. Synthetic strategies based on anionic polymerization, as well as a few examples showing the influence of the miktoarm structure on the morphology of block copolymers, are reviewed in this chapter.
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U2 - 10.1039/9781788010429-00001
DO - 10.1039/9781788010429-00001
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85019040479
T3 - RSC Polymer Chemistry Series
SP - 1
EP - 30
BT - Fluorinated Polymers, Volume 1
A2 - Tang, Ben Zhong
A2 - Kakkar, Ashok
PB - Royal Society of Chemistry
ER -