Controlled/living radical publications

Fig-3. The number of literature publications per year though August/2001 in the general field of controlled/ living radical polymerization (CRP) and those related to specifically to CRP copolymers... 

The fifty chapters submitted for publication in the ACS Symposium series could not fit into one volume and therefore we decided to split them into two volumes. In order to balance the size of each volume we did not divide the chapters into volumes related to mechanisms and materials but rather to those related to atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and to other controlled/living radical polymerization methods reversible-addition fragmentation transfer (RAFT) and other degenerative transfer techniques, as well as stable free radical pol5mierizations (SFRP) including nitroxide mediated polymerization (NMP) and organometallic mediated radical polymerization (OMRP). 

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski received his PhD degree in 1976 from the Polish Academy of Sciences under Prof S. Penczek. Since 1985 he has been at Carnegie Mellon University where he is currently ). C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and director of Center for Maaomolecular Engineering. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of Progress in Polymer Science and Central European Journal of Chemistry. He has coedited 14 books and coauthored more than 70 book chapters and 700 peer-reviewed publications he holds 41 US and more than 120 international patents. His papers have been cited more than 50000 times. His research interests include controlled/living radical polymerization, catalysis, environmental chemistry, and advanced materials for optoelectronic and biomedical applications. 

Several publications appeared recently that describe use of controlled/ living radical polymerizations to form block copolymers. Thus, Jerome et al. [435] described formation of block copolymers by using an initiator capable of initiating simultaneously dual living polymerizations ... 

During the last fifteen years an explosive increase has been observed in the number of publications on CRP, including a dramatic increase in the nrrmber of patent applications and several symposia devoted partially, or entirely, to CRP." " Figure 1 illustrates resrrlts of a recent SciFinder Scholar search using the following terms controlled radicalpolymn or living radical polymn... 

Figure 1.1 Publication rate of journal papers on radical polymerization and on living, controlled or mediated radical polymerization for period 1975-2002 based on SeiFinder search (as of Mar 2005).

Figure 1 Publication rate of journal papers on radical polymerization and on living, controlled, or mediated radical polymerization for the period 1975-2008 based on SciFinder search (as of March 2010). It does not distinguish forms of controlled radical polymerization. It includes most papers on ATRP, RAFT, and NMP and would also include conventional, non-RDRP, controlled radical polymerizations. It would not include papers, which do not mention the terms living , controlled , or mediated .

Due to the advancements in polymer synthesis there are a number of controlled polymerization techniques available today and, therefore, the number of publications on tailor-made block copolymers has increased especially during the last decade. Besides the living anionic and, to a less extent, also cationic polymerizations various techniques of controlled radical polymerization have become popular. Also some works have been carried out establishing control in polycondensation and even coordination polymerization. Some of the different techniques have been also combined in block copolymer synthesis. Thus an increasing number of monomers have become accessible for the synthesis of tailor-made block copolymers of various chain architectures. 

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