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Informationen zum Autor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is the J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. He has co-authored 880 publications! co-edited 17 books! and holds 51 U.S. patents as well as132 international patents. Matyjaszewski received the 2013 Inaugural AkzoNobel North America Science Award! the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry! and the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Award in addition to seven honorary degrees.Brent Sumerlin is an associate professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Florida. He has been named a Kavli Fellow! an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow! and a Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.Nicolay V. Tsarevsky is an assistant professor of chemistry at Southern Methodist University in Dallas! TX. He haspublished 78 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters! co-authored one textbook and co-edited three books! and is the co-inventor on several patents.John Chiefari is a research leader in CSIRO's Manufacturing Flagship. He is a co-inventor and co-developer of the RAFT process! which has been commercialized with products in the U.S.! Europe! Australia! and Japan. He is currently managing CSIRO's research activities to extend the utility of the RAFT process and to explore new application areas in the biomedical! agricultural! personal care! and industrial chemical fields. Klappentext This book and the preceding volume are addressed to chemists and polymer scientists interested in radical processes! and especially in controlled/living radical polymerization. The chapters presented in this volume summarize the most recent accomplishments in the field. Zusammenfassung This book and the preceding volume are addressed to chemists and polymer scientists interested in radical processes, and especially in controlled/living radical polymerization. The chapters presented in this volume summarize the most recent accomplishments in the field.The chapters in this volume are focused on control over macromolecular architecture and functionality, as well as on the synthesis of well-defined polymers in heterogeneous systems, and the preparation and applications of hybrid materials and biomaterials. In addition, one chapter is dedicated to polymer characterization. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Periodic Introduction of Water-Tolerant Titanatrane Complex to Poly(NIPAM) Prepared by Simultaneous Step-Growth and Living Radical Polymerization; 2. Side-Chain Cobaltocenium-Containing Polymers: Controlled Polymerization and Applications; 3. Unprecedented Control over the Acrylate and Acrylamide Polymerization in Aqueous and Organic Media; 4. Controlled Synthesis of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Based Copolymers by Organometallic Mediated Radical Polymerization; 5. High-Throughput Synthesis of Thermoresponsive Poly(oligoethylene glycolacrylate) Copolymers by RAFT Polymerization; 6. Temperature-Induced Gels from Worms Made by RAFT-Mediated Emulsion Polymerization; 7. Worm-Like Micelles and Vesicles: Adjusting the Morphology of Self-Assembled Fructose Based Block Copolymers by Fine-Tuning the Processing Parameters; 8. Synthesis of 4-Arm Polystyrene Star Polymers by Sequential Reactions; 9. Core-Shell Cylindrical Polymer Brushes with New Properties: A Mini-Review; 10. Recent Progress on Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers with Controlled Molecular Weight Distribution; 11. Synthesis of Star Polymers with Epoxide-Containing Highly Branched Cores by Low-Catalyst Concentration Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Post-Polymerization Modifications; 12. Living Radical Polymerization from Colloidally-Templated Nanopatterned Surface; 13. RAFT Polymerization on Particle Surfaces: Same Goal! Different Strategies; 14. One-Pot RAFT Synthesis of Triphenylphosphine-Functionalized Amphiphilic Core-Shell Polymers and Application as Catalytic Nanoreactors in Aqueous Biphasic Hydroformylation; 15. RAFT C...