CdSe quantum dots with polymerisable ligands have been incorporated into polystyrene beads, via a suspension polymerisation reaction, as a first step towards the optical encoding of solid supports for application in solid phase organic chemistry.

Dextran-b-polystyrene diblock copolymers forming miscellaneous spherical self-assemblies in water were obtained by chemical modification of the anomeric extremity of a commercial dextran followed by atom transfer radical polymerisation of styrene.

Herein, the first example of a reversible iron-mediated chain transfer polymerisation isoprene with ZnEt 2 as agent is reported.

Occlusion of copolymer particles within inorganic crystalline hosts not only provides a model for understanding the crystallisation process, but also may offer a direct route for the preparation of novel nanocomposite materials with emergent properties. In the present paper, a series of new well-defined anionic diblock copolymer nanoparticles are synthesised by polymerisation-induced self-assem...

Complete libraries of oligonucleotides were used as substrates for Thermus thermophilus DNA ligase, on a M13mp18 ssDNA template. A 17mer primer was used to start a polymerisation process. Ladders of ligation products were analysed by gel electrophoresis. Octa-, nona- and decanucleotide libraries were compared. Nonanucleotides were optimum for polymerisation and up to 15 monomers were ligated. T...