Thomas P. Davis

TL;DR: In this article, the ambient temperature (20 oC) reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and acrylic acid (AA) was conducted directly in aqueous media under gamma-initiation (at dose rate of 30 Gy h-1) to near quantitative conversions and up to number-average molecular weights.

TL;DR: The objective of this review is to outline current advances of nano-assemblies as remotely controlled DDSs, in hopes of accelerating the future development of intelligent nanomedicines.

TL;DR: In this article, the chain length dependence of the termination rate coefficient, kt, in butyl acrylate free-radical polymerization has been determined by two independent methods, RAFT-SP-PLP and RAFTCLD-T, both employing control of radical chain length by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel experimental procedure was presented that allowed probing of reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) free-radical polymerizations for long-lived species, and the results indicated that stable intermediates (either radical or nonradical in nature) are present in such experiments because thermal self-initiation of the monomer can be excluded as the reason for polymer formation.

TL;DR: The ability of solvents to affect the homopropagation rate of many common monomers has been widely documented as discussed by the authors, including styrene and methyl methacrylate.