Preface
Overview and Fundamentals of Radicall Polymerization
1. CRP - state of the art in 2008, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
2. Real and Apparent Sources of Polydispersity in Molecular Weight Distributions from Radical Polymerization, Gregory Russell
3. Molecular Design and Polymerization Behavior of Monomers Polymerizable via Radical Ring-opening, Takeshi Endo and Kazuhide Morino
4. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Observation of Radical Migration Reactions in the Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates, Atsushi Kajiwara
Kinetics & Mechanism of ATRP
5. "Greening" of Copper Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Addition (ATRA) and Cyclization (ATRC) Reactions, Tomislav Pintauer
6. The Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Equilibrium: Structural and Medium Effects, Nick Tsarevsky, Wade A. Braunecker, Wei Tang, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
7. ATRP of Methacrylates Catalysed by Homo- and Heterobimetallic Ruthenium Complexes, Albert Demonceau, Yannick Borguet, Xavier Sauvage, Dario Bicchielli, Sébastien Delfosse, Lionel Delaude, Laurianne Bareille, Pierre Le Gendre, and Claude Moïse
8. Ruthenium Carborane Complexes in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Dmitry F. Grishin, Ivan D. Grishin and Igor T.Chizhevsky
9. Controlling the Fast ATRP of N-Isopropylacrylaminde in Water, Axel H. E. Müller, Pierre-Eric Millard, Nathalie C. Mougin, and Alexander Böker
10. Controlled/"Living" Radical Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate, Youqing Shen, Huadong Tang, and Maciej Radosz
11. Reversible Chain Transfer Catalyzed Polymerization (RTCP) with Alcohol Catalysts, Atsushi Goto, Norihiro Hirai, Tsutomu Wakada, Koji Nagasawa, Yoshinobu Tsujii,* and Takeshi Fukuda
12. The Use of Atom Transfer Radical Coupling Reactions for the Synthesis of Various Macromolecular Structures, Yusuf Yagci, Yasemin Yuksel Durmaz, Binnur Aydogan, and Ioan Cianga
13. Design of Thermoresponsive Materials by ATRP of Oligo(ethylene glycol)-based (Macro)monomers, Jean-François Lutz, Özgür Akdemir, Nezha Badi, Sebastian Pfeifer, Zoya Zarafshani, André Laschewsky, and Erik Wischerhoff
14. Gelation in Atom Transfer Radical Copolymerization with a Divinyl Cross-Linker, Haifeng Gao, Wenwen Li, Ke Min and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
15. Segregated Polymer Brushes via "Grafting to" and ATRP "Grafting from" Chain Anchoring, Igor Luzinov, Yong Liu, and Viktor Klep
16. Hybrid Block Copolymers Incorporating Oligosasaccharides and D Synthetic Blocks Grown by Controlled Radical Polymerization, Yves Gnanou, Jérôme Lohmann, Clément Houga, Hugues Driguez, James Wilson, Mathias Destarac, Sébastien Fort, Jean-François Le Meins, Redouane Borsali, and Daniel Taton
17. Controlled radical polymerizations as versatile synthetic routes for conjugated rod-coil block copolymers and their use as active polymer semiconducting materials in flexible organic electronic devices and systems, Georges Hadziiannou and Cyril Brochon
18. Linear Viscoelasticity of Polymer Tethered Highly Grafted Nanoparticles, Ramanan Krishnamoorti Vivek Goel , Joanna Pietrasik, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
19. Physical and mechanical properties of amphiphilic and adaptative polymer conetworks produced by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Philippe Dubois, Laetitia Mespouille, Jean-Marie Raquez, and Curtis W. Frank
20. Acrylate Based Copolymers by ATRP: The Effect of Molecular Structure on Thermo-Mechanical Properties, Kaloian Koynov, Azhar Juhari, Tadeusz Pakula, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
21. Novel Baroplastic Materials, Metin H. Acar and Sebnem Inceoglu
Industrial Aspects of ATRP
22. Functionalisation of polyHIPE Materials by ATRP Surface Grafting, Andreas Heise, David M. Cummins, and Pieter C. M. M. Maqusin
23. Systematic Polymeric Libraries via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Wojciech Jakubowski, Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, and Patrick McCarthy
24. Polypropylene-graft-poly(methyl methacrylate) Graft Copolymers: Synthesis and Compatibilization of Polypropylene/Polylactide, Hideyuki Kaneko, Junji Saito, Nobuo Kawahara, Shingo Matsuo, Tomoaki Matsugi and Norio Kashiwa
25. Novel Polyolefin Hybrids via Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization, J. Saito, N. Kawahara, S. Matsuo, H. Kaneko, T. Matsugi, and N. Kashiwa
26. Opportunities in Controlled Radical Polymerization, James Spanswick and Bernard Pike
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index