Bibliography and Notes for Chapter 1 Introduction

Review articles are indicated by the words Review(s) or Book/Books in bold-faced type. 

2 The term cascade was chosen because it evokes analogies to the repetitive branching of the arms, for example the water cascade of a fountain, in which the number of waterfalls increases on proceeding from the top small basin to the progressively larger ones below to an extent determinable by the designer. 

4 Remarkably, this publication attracted little attention and generated little response at the time and for several years afterwards, nor were any priority claims made. The macrocyclic iterative variant non-skid-chain like molecule also mentioned in reference [1] shares this fate to the present day. 

de Gennes, H. Hervet, /. Phys. Lett. Fr. 1983, 44, L351-L361. 

Tomalia H. Baker, J. Dewald, M. Hall, G. Kallos, S. Martin, J. Roeck, J. Ryder, P. Smith, Macromolecules 1986, 

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