Mishra M.K., Kobayashi Sh. (Eds.) Star and Hyperbranched Polymers

Marcel Dekker, 1999, 350 pages, ISBN: 0824719867Synthesizing the raw data needed for a wide variety of industrial applications, this work supplies up-to-date advanced in research on star, hyperbranched and dendritic polymers. It provides detailed descriptions of the size and shape of the molecules that make up these polymers, as well as their biological advances, low viscosity in solution and substrate-holding properties.
This cutting-edge reference supplies the very latest advances in research on star, hyperbranched, and dendritic polymers—providing design strategies needed for a wide variety of industrial applications.
Written by over 20 international contributors, Star and Hyperbranched Polymers supplies synthetic strategies for "polymers of geometrical beauty".examines the architecture and properties of starburst, multi-arm star, comblike, hyperbranched, and ball polymers, as well as dendrimers. .explores the use of hyperbranched polymers as additives, in blends, as thermoplastics, and as dendrimers for catalysts...explains "living" and "dormant" mechanisms of anionic and group transfer polymerization. reviews ways in which branched (or radial) polymers impact characteristics such as crystallinity, crystalline melting point, viscoelectric properties, solution viscosities, and melt viscosities.elucidates dendrimer growth by divergence and convergence. assesses "core-first" and "arm-first" star polymers.surveys lattice formation, microsphere, and "thermal blob" models, and other architectures.and more.Synthesis of Branched Polymers: An Introduction
Star-Shaped Polymers via Anionic Polymerization Methods
Branched Polymers via Group Transfer Polymerization
Star-Shaped Polymers via Living Cationic Polymerization
Star and Hyperbranched Polymers by Transition Metal Catalysis
Star Polymers by Immobilizing Functional Block Copolymers
Star Polymers via a Controlled Sol-Gel Process
Hyperbranched Polymers
Dendritic Architectures by the Convergent Method
Dendritic Molecules by the Divergent Method
Dilute Solution Properties of Regular Star Polymers