Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions
Postpolymerization modification—the installation of functional groups into a premade, reactive polymeric precursor—is emerging as an advantageous synthetic strategy toward tailored materials. In this article, the preparation of environmentally sensitive, “smart,” polymers by virtue of postpolymeriza...
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| description | Postpolymerization modification—the installation of functional groups into a premade, reactive polymeric precursor—is emerging as an advantageous synthetic strategy toward tailored materials. In this article, the preparation of environmentally sensitive, “smart,” polymers by virtue of postpolymerization modification is presented. The underlying fundamentals of different types of stimulus-responsiveness are highlighted with an emphasis on thermoresponsiveness, encompassing lower and upper critical solution temperature (LCST and UCST) behavior. Using a range of postpolymerization modifications as examples, properties imparted through incorporation of specific functional groups and their structure–property relations are discussed. Strategies for an appropriate choice of functionality in order to obtain well-defined materials with custom-made behavior are presented. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-319712019-02-19T05:35:34Z Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions Roth, Peter Postpolymerization modification—the installation of functional groups into a premade, reactive polymeric precursor—is emerging as an advantageous synthetic strategy toward tailored materials. In this article, the preparation of environmentally sensitive, “smart,” polymers by virtue of postpolymerization modification is presented. The underlying fundamentals of different types of stimulus-responsiveness are highlighted with an emphasis on thermoresponsiveness, encompassing lower and upper critical solution temperature (LCST and UCST) behavior. Using a range of postpolymerization modifications as examples, properties imparted through incorporation of specific functional groups and their structure–property relations are discussed. Strategies for an appropriate choice of functionality in order to obtain well-defined materials with custom-made behavior are presented. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31971 10.1002/macp.201400073 Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Roth, Peter Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title | Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title_full | Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title_fullStr | Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title_short | Composing Well-Defined Stimulus-Responsive Materials Through Postpolymerization Modification Reactions |
| title_sort | composing well-defined stimulus-responsive materials through postpolymerization modification reactions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31971 |