Star polymers hybrid organic/inorganic

Matyjaszewski, K., Miller, P.J., Pyun, J. et al. (1999) Synthesis and characterization of star polymers with varying arm number, length, and composition from organic and hybrid inorganic/organic multifunctional initiators. Macromolecules, 32,6526-6535. 

Anionic polymerization of functionalized cyclotrisiloxanes is a good method for the synthesis of well-defined functionalized polysiloxane with control of molecular mass, polydispersion, and density and arrangement of functional groups. These polymers may serve as reactive blocks for the building of macromolecular architectures, such as all-siloxane and organic-siloxane block and graft copolymers, star-, comb- and dendritic-branched copolymers and various polysiloxane-inorganic solid hybrids. 

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