Issue 28, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Tailoring dendronized polymers

Yongming Chen*a  and  Xingquan Xiongab  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Division of Polymer Science and Materials, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Beijing 100190, China
E-mail: ymchen@iccas.ac.cn
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b College of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Huaqiao, Xiamen, China

Abstract

Dendrimers are branched or hyperbranched synthetic oligomers or macromolecules with their size, molar masses, number of end groups and delicate compositions being precisely controlled. These characteristics have made dendrimers very good candidates as scaffolds of spherical molecules whose size ranges from several to tens of nanometres. When the dendritic segments are densely grafted along a linear polymer, so-called dendronized polymers or denpols are obtained. Owing to the steric hindrance between neighboring dendrons, especially in high generation, the dendronized polymers show a wormlike morphology whose flexibility and diameter are mainly dependent upon the generation of grafted dendrons. Therefore, denpols may be regarded as one-dimensional molecular nanoobjects. In this article, the recent development of a remarkable synthesis, control of composition and morphologies are featured.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B922777F
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
30 Oct 2009
Accepted
14 May 2010
First published
01 Jun 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 5049-5060

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Y. Chen and X. Xiong, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 5049 DOI: 10.1039/B922777F

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