Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.32, No.22, 1820-1825, 2011
Synthesis of Branched Polymers under Continuous-Flow Microprocess: An Improvement of the Control of Macromolecular Architectures
Polymerization reactions can benefit from continuous-flow microprocess in terms of kinetics control, reactants mixing or simply efficiency when high-throughput screening experiments are carried out. In this work, we perform for the first time the synthesis of branched macromolecular architecture through a controlled/living' polymerization technique, in tubular microreactor. Just by tuning process parameters, such as flow rates of the reactants, we manage to generate a library of polymers with various macromolecular characteristics.
Keywords:atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP);branched;continuous-flow;microprocess;self-condensing vinyl copolymerization (SCVCP)