Discovery of dendrimers and dendritic polymers: A brief historical perspective

Donald A. Tomalia; Jean M.J. Fréchet

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Discovery of dendrimers and dendritic polymers: A brief historical perspective

Donald A. Tomalia^*, Jean M.J. Fréchet

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Abstract

A brief historical perspective relating the discovery of dendrimers and other dendritic polymers is presented. Dendritic polymers are recognized as the fourth major class of macromolecular architecture consisting of four sub-classes, namely, (1) random hyper-branched, (2) dendrigrafts, (3) dendrons, and (4) dendrimers. The previous literature is reviewed with anecdotal events leading to implications for dendrimers in the emerging science of nanotechnology.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2719-2728
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry
Volume	40
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pola.10301
State	Published - Aug 15 2002
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Artificial proteins
Dendrigrafts
Dendrimers
Hyper-branched
Nano-technology
Telechelics

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Polymers and Plastics
Organic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry

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