Study of Copolymerization and Functional Copolymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022) | Viewed by 3590
Special Issue Editor
Interests: single-site catalysis in polymerization and transformations of α-olefins; coordination catalysis and organocatalysis for ring-opening polymerization; synthesis of high-margin petrochemical products; biodegradable polymers; DFT modeling of the mechanisms of organic reactions and catalytic processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A bold and innovative global strategy for the abandonment of conventional plastics for disposable articles forces us to develop new biodegradable materials—as well as to tirelessly improve the characteristics of polyolefins, rubbers and similar polymers. Besides the “green revolution” in the plastics industry, new methods, tools, and ideas in polymer chemistry are of great demand in biomedicine, molecular electronics, energy storage, and other actual areas of science, technology, and human life.
A great diversity of monomers, catalysts, reaction mechanisms, and methods of creating polymer architectures pave the way to new materials with unique properties. Copolymerization is one of the most efficient ways to realize functional copolymers, macromolecules containing “functions” in the broadest sense of the term—both “functionalized” (i.e., containing functional groups and organochemical meaning) and “functioning” (actuated by external stimuli).
This Special Issue focuses on creating a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on recent advances in functional copolymers, with its wide variety of subject matter.
Dr. Pavel Ivchenko
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- alternating polymerization
- anionic polymerization
- cationic polymerization
- coordination polymerization
- copolymerization
- controlled polymerization
- free-radical polymerization
- functional polymers
- ring-opening polymerizations
- single-site catalysts
- organocatalysts
