By contrast to traditional free radical emulsion polymerization, catalytic polymerization allows for polymer microstructure control. In terms of monomers polymerizable, both techniques are largely complementary. Since the beginning of this decade, an increasing number of reports on polyolefin, polybutadiene, polyalkenamer, polynorbornene, polyketone and polyacetylene dispersions prepared by cat...

Photoinitiators of polymerization with reversible electrochemical properties are actively researched as these molecules can advantageously be used in photocatalytic systems, enabling to reduce the photoinitiators content within photocurable resins. In this field, ferrocene which is extensively by electrochemists a reference compound for cyclic voltammetry also exhibits significant absorption vi...

Vinyl ether (VE) was long believed to be among the monomers that could not radically homopolymerized. Therefore, synthesize block copolymers with versatile polymerizable monomers, efficient transformation reactions were necessary between living cationic and controlled radical polymerizations. Under such circumstances, some groundbreaking polymerizations have been discovered. One reaction, a met...