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Showing papers in "Progress in Polymer Science in 2004"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on temperature and pH responsive polymer systems and additionally the other stimuli-based responsive polymers will be assessed, which is more helpful to design new approaches because the basic concepts and mechanisms are systematically connected.

2,233 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a couple-monomer methodology (CMM) is proposed for hyperbranched polymers, which is based on the in situ formation of ABn intermediates from specific monomer pairs.

1,896 citations


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TL;DR: The role of polymers as gas sensors, pH sensors, ion-selective sensors, humidity sensors, biosensor devices, etc., are reviewed and discussed in this article, and current trends in sensor research and also challenges in future sensor research are discussed.

1,126 citations


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TL;DR: Graft co-polymerization initiated by chemical treatment, photo-irradiation, high-energy radiation technique, etc. is documented in this article, where several prime controlling factors on grafting are discussed.

1,027 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a review of fundamental kinetic features of living radical polymerization (LRP) is presented, where the authors show that the product from LRP can have a low polydispersity, provided that the number of terminated chains is small compared to the number potentially active.

844 citations


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TL;DR: A brief history and an overview of the traditional plasticizers currently available in the world market, discusses some of the problems associated with the end uses of these plasticizers and reviews recent scientific approaches to resolve these problems as mentioned in this paper.

701 citations


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TL;DR: The modifications discussed here include chitosan attached to sugars, dendrimers, cyclodextrins, crown ethers, and glass beads, which are excellent candidates for drug delivery systems or cell culture owing to their specificity.

660 citations


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TL;DR: In the last few years, it has been shown that ionic liquids can be advantageously used also for polymer synthesis and the increase of kp/kt ratio for polymerizations conducted in ionic liquid has been observed as discussed by the authors.

581 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the chemistry of addition-cure phenolic resins and the different strategies involved in their molecular design are discussed, and the thermal, physical and mechanical properties are discussed and the structure-property correlations examined.

570 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of ion exchange membranes by radiation-induced graft copolymerization of polar and functional monomers onto non-polar polymeric films and fibers is presented.

563 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the current state of the research field of adaptive and environmentally sensitive polymer surfaces designed to respond to external stimuli in a controlled and predictable manner is presented.

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TL;DR: A brief survey of NLO polymeric materials based on azobenzene units and of high thermal and temporal stability can be found in this paper, where a wide range of additional applications of azobenene chromophore is summarized, including photorefractivity, all-optical poling, holographic surface relief gratings, photo-assisted poling and optical data storage based on photochromism.

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TL;DR: A review of polymeric fullerenes and carbon nanotubes can be found in this paper, where a number of functional polymers have been used to react with fullerene and CNTs.

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TL;DR: The hydrogen bond in polymer blends is an interesting and important subject of research as its presence usually enhances the miscibility of the blend as discussed by the authors, and methods to incorporate interassociated hydrogen bonds into immiscible blends are reviewed, based on work over the last twenty or so years.

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TL;DR: A review on macromolecular plasma chemistry illustrates the continuing interest in achieving controlled surface modification under plasma conditions, and the potential of plasma-chemistry for advancing future technologies.

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TL;DR: In this article, a review of the work on the synthesis, properties, and structure of curious oligo- and polysiloxanes which have been done mainly by the authors, referring the related papers.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a reversible catalyst supporting concept that is homogeneous for catalysis but heterogeneous for separation/recovery is presented, and the development and characters of each system are critically reviewed.

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TL;DR: Polyelectrolyte multilayer-coated colloidal assemblies (colloid arrays or colloidal crystals) can also be used to prepare 2-dimensional surface arrays and 3-dimensional macroporous materials with tunable morphologies and compositions as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this article, three distinct synthetic methodologies are considered for the preparation of dendrigraft polymers: divergent grafting onto, grafting from, and convergent grafting through, in a one-pot reaction.

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TL;DR: A quick overview of experimental studies of methylaluminoxane and an in-depth review of recent theoretical investigations can be found in this paper, where the authors show that a large excess of MAO is necessary in order for polymerization to occur, whereas in the case of supported MAO this ratio is greatly decreased (ratios of ∼100:1-500:1).

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TL;DR: In this article, small-angle x-ray and neutron scattering of block copolymers is reviewed, considering both experiments and theory, in the melt, solution and crystal states.

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TL;DR: In this paper, phase behavior and the micromechanical deformation mechanisms active in amorphous styrene/butadiene block copolymers were examined with respect to the molecular architecture.

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TL;DR: The synthesis of aromatic fluoromonomer compounds functionalized by halogen atoms, organic functions or acid groups prepared and characterized by different methods, are described in this paper, which deals with the synthesis and the polymerization of fluorostyrene bearing the fluorine atom(s) in α and/or β position, mainly.

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TL;DR: In this article, the first systematic treatment of the voluminous literature on the theory of polycondensation is presented, and the effects on these characteristics of the process modes for thermodynamically and kinetically controlled regimes of a poly-condensation are analyzed in detail.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe recent directions in the preparation of PPP graft copolymers with various polymeric side-chains, including atom transfer radical polymerization or ring opening polymerization.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of shape-persistent macromolecules have been investigated to the same extent as of glass-forming liquids or amorphous polymers, and it has been shown that these molecularly diverse but shape-perceptible macromoles share some common features in their dynamic response.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the regio-and stereoselective cyclopolymerization of 1,2:5,6-dianhydrohexitol, 1,4-anhydro-3-O-methyl-dl -arabinitol, and 1, 2:5-6-diepithio-1,2,5, 6-tetradeoxy-3, 4-di-O -methyl- l -iditol were used to produce (2→5)-linked (1→6)-linked 2,5