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Conference Report: 35th Australasian Polymer Symposium
The 35th APS took place on the Gold Coast, Queensland, from the 12th – 15th of July: three and a half days of talks from numerous areas of polymer science.
First precise 9-arm 9-component star polymer
Precise synthesis of multi-armed and multi-component star-branched polymers was achieved using living anionic polymerization in a new iterative approach.
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An Old Drug in a New Form: Dithiolethione Prodrug Micelles
Polymeric prodrug micelles for delivery of a dithiolethione drug have been designed and synthesized from amphiphilic diblock copolymers.
Grafting Thick Films by Surface-Initiated Photo-Polymerization
Modification of surfaces by grafting polymer chains from surface-anchored initiators opens vast opportunities to engineer surface properties of materials.
Inseparable: Twin Polymerization in Hybrid Material Synthesis
Twin polymerization describes the formation of two polymers starting from just one monomer in a mechanistically coupled process step.
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