Versatile grafting approaches to star-shaped POSS-containing hybrid polymers using RAFT polymerization and click chemistry

Yun-Sheng Ye; Wei-Chung Shen; Chi-Yung Tseng; John Rick; Yao-Jheng Huang; Feng-Chih Chang; Bing-Joe Hwang

doi:10.1039/c1cc13412d

Versatile grafting approaches to star-shaped POSS-containing hybrid polymers using RAFT polymerization and click chemistry

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Oct 14;47(38):10656-8. doi: 10.1039/c1cc13412d. Epub 2011 Sep 1.

Authors

Yun-Sheng Ye¹, Wei-Chung Shen, Chi-Yung Tseng, John Rick, Yao-Jheng Huang, Feng-Chih Chang, Bing-Joe Hwang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.

PMID: 21881643
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13412d

Abstract

An alkyne-bearing polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) core was used to prepare POSS-containing polymer hybrids using 'grafting to' or 'grafting from' strategies in combination with reversible chain transfer and click chemistry.