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PREFACE ; KINETICS & MECHANISM OF RAFT, DT, NMP AND OMRP ; 1. New Features of the Mechanism of RAFT Polymerization ; GRAEME MOAD, Y.K. CHONG, ROGER MULDER, EZIO RIZZARDO, SAN H. THANG ; 2. Influence of Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) on kt and the Onset of the Gel Effect using the RAFT-CLD-T Method ; MICHAEL J. MONTEIRO AND GEOFFREY JOHNSTON-HALL ; 3. RAFT Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate, Styrene and Acrylates Using N,N Dithiocarbamates ; DEVON A. SHIPP VIDYASAGAR MALEPU, CHRISTY D. PETRUCZOK, TUTRINH TRAN, ; TIANXI ZHANG, MAHESH THOPASRIDHARAN ; 4. . Thiourea-Mediated Stereospecific Radical Polymerization of Acrylamides and Combination with RAFT for Simultaneous Control of Molecular Weight and Tacticity ; MASAMI KAMIGAITO, HARUMI MURAYAMA, KOTARO SATOH ; 5. Controlled Radical Polymerization of Butyl Acrylate and Methyl Methacrylate by Reverse Iodine Transfer Polymerization (RITP) in Miniemulsion: Use of Hydrogen Peroxide as Oxidant ; PATRICK LACROIX-DESMAZES AND JEFF TONNAR ; 6. Current Methods for N-Alkoxyamine Snthesis ; ROBERT B. GRUBBS AND ANNA C. GREENE ; 7. New Nitroxide Mediators for Controlled Synthesis of Polystyrene, Poly(meth)acrylates and Their Copolymers ; DMITRY F. GRISHIN, ELENA V. KOLYAKINA, MARINA V. PAVLOVSKAYA, MIKHAIL ; A. LAZAREV, ALEXANDER A. SHCHEPALOV ; 8. Formation, Dissociation, and Radical Exchange of Organo-Cobalt Complexes in Mediating Living Radical Polymerization ; BRADFORD B. WAYLAND, CHI-HOW PENG, SHAN LI ; 9. Key Role of Metal-Coordination in Cobalt-Mediated Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate ; ANTOINE DEBUIGNE, RINALDO POLI, ROBERT JEROME, CHRISTINE JEROME, CHRISTOPHE DETREMBLEUR ; 10. Cp2TiCl-Catalyzed Controlled Radical Polymerization of Isoprene Initiated by Epoxide Radical Ring Opening ; ALEXANDRU D. ASANDEI, CHRISTOPHER P. SIMPSON, HYUN S. YU, OLUMIDE I. ADEBOLU, ; GOBINDA SAHA AND YANHUI CHEN ; MACROMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE BY RAFT, DT AND NMP ; 11. Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Mediated ; POLYMERIZATION OF N-VINYLPYRROLIDONE: RAFT AGENT DESIGN ; BERT KLUMPERMAN AND GWENAELLE POUND-LANA ; 12. Gelation Kinetics of RAFT Radical Copolymerization of Methacrylate and ; DIMETHACRYLATE ; SHIPING ZHU, QIANG YU, QIAN GAN, HONGWEN ZHANG ; 13. Amphililic Block Copolymers Synthesized via RAFT: Stimulus-Induced Nanoscale Assembly and Cross-linking inAqueous Media ; CHARLES L. MCCORMICK, MATTHEW G. KELLUM, ADAM E. SMITH, XUEWEI XU ; 14. Mechanism of Z-RAFT Star Polymerization P. Vana, D. Boschmann, M. Manz, M. G. Frohlich, G. Zifferer ; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE AND POLYMER FUNCTIONALIZATION VIA CLICK CHEMISTRY ; SABINE BEUERMANN, MUHAMMAD IMRAN-UL-HAQ, NADJA FORSTER, RADOVAN ; VUKICEVIC, KRISTIN HERRMANN, REBEKKA SIEGMANN ; 16. SG1 and BLOCBUILDER technology: a versatile toolbox for the elaboration of complex macromolecular architectures ; DENIS BERTIN, DIDIER GIGMES, JEROME VINAS, NELLY CHAGNEUX, CATHERINE LEFAY, ; TRANG N. T. PHAN, THOMAS TRIMAILLE, PIERRE-EMMANUEL DUFILS, YOHANN GUILLANEUF, ; GERALDINE CARROT, FRANCOIS BOUE ; MATERIALS PREPARED BY RAFT AND NMP ; 17. Bioconjugates of polymers and sequence-defined peptides by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer radical polymerization ; HANS BOERNER ; 18. RAFT Polymerization, a Versatile Tool for the Production of Functional Soft ; NANOPARTICLES ; SEBASTIEN PERRIER, VARANGKANA JITCHUM, HAMILTON KAKWERE, VINCENT LADMIRAL ; 19. Kinetics and Colloidal Stability of Raft/Miniemulsion Polymerization of MMA Using Comblike Polymeric Surfactants ; PEIHONG NI, XIULIN ZHU, AND XIAODONG ZHOU ; 20. . Nitroxide-Mediated Controlled Free-Radical Copolymerization of Poly(ethylene glycol) Methyl Ether Methacrylate and Methacrylic Acid. Toward New Water-Soluble Macroinitiators ; JULIEN NICOLAS, CHARLOTTE DIRE, SEGOLENE BRUSSEAU, BERNADETTE CHARLEUX, STEPHANIE MAGNET, LAURENCE COUVREUR ; 21. Synthesis and Reaction of Well-defined Copolymers with Thermally Exchangeable Dynamic Covalent Bonds in the Side Chains ; HIDEYUKI OTSUKA, YOSHIFUMI AMAMOTO, YASUHIRO MATSUDA, TAKESHI MAEDA, AND ATSUSHI TAKAHARA ; 22. Borane-mediated radical polymerization; Preparation of Fluoropolymers for ; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY CAPACITORS ; T. C. MIKE CHUNG AND ZHI-CHENG ZHANG ; INDUSTRIAL ASPECTS OF RAFT AND NMP ; 23. MADIX Technology: from Innovative Concepts to Industrialization of Block ; COPOLYMERS FOR EMULSION STABILIZATION ; MATHIAS DESTARAC, SOPHIE DEROO, HELENE LANNIBOIS-DREAN, ALAIN SENECHAL, WOJCIECH ; BZDUCHA ; 24. Controlled Architecture Polymers at Arkema: Synthesis, Morphology and Properties of All-Acrylic Block Copolymers ; PIERRE GERARD, LAURENCE COUVREUR1, STEPHANIE MAGNET, JASON NESS AND SCOTT ; SCHMIDT

About the Author

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. His research focus is on macromolecular engineering, especially on the synthesis of well-defined copolymers using atom transfer radical polymerization and other controlled/living polymerization techniques. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the Polish Academy of Sciences and is the editor of the journals Progress in Polymer Science and Central European Journal of Chemistry. Professor Matyjaszewski authored 13 books, over 60 book chapters, more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and holds 38 US patents. He received several awards from the American Chemical Society, including the 2009 Presidential Award in Green Chemistry.