new polymer research with Matt j , Derry 2015

first published online from the royal chemical society app march 2 2015

a new discovery by matthew J . Derry , and his team which revelevent to the plastic industry by polymerising benyl methacryalate using poly (luara methacrylate )
as a chemical bonder with growing plastic particles in the chemical process which brings us to more like automatic reations that form polymers
this is a step foward in the material science

you can see the original article your self at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...a#!divAbstract

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( you got of love this society i mean if they get enough contributions to the world of science they get a listed as a charter chemist , they get listed on time magazine , recoginised as a grace for the place ,
for fair use only but please share it with people but please no spoilers)

the downloaded citation is below

TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrially-relevant polymerization-induced self-assembly formulations in non-polar solvents: RAFT dispersion polymerization of benzyl methacrylate
A1 - Derry, Matthew J.
A1 - Fielding, Lee A.
A1 - Armes, Steven P.
Y1 - 2015
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JF - Polymer Chemistry
JO - Polym. Chem.
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PB - The Royal Society of Chemistry
SN - 1759-9954
DO - 10.1039/C5PY00157A
M3 - 10.1039/C5PY00157A
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5PY00157A
N2 - Industrially-sourced mineral oil and a poly([small alpha]-olefin) are used as solvents for the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion polymerization of benzyl methacrylate (BzMA) using a poly(lauryl methacrylate) macromolecular chain transfer agent (PLMA macro-CTA) at 90 [degree]C. The insolubility of the growing PBzMA chains under such conditions leads to polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA), whereby poly(lauryl methacrylate)-poly(benzyl methacrylate) (PLMA-PBzMA) diblock copolymer spheres, worms or vesicles are produced directly as concentrated dispersions. The particular diblock copolymer composition required to access each individual morphology depends on the nature of the oil. Moreover, the solvent type also affects important properties of the physical free-standing gels that are formed by the PLMA-PBzMA worm dispersions, including the storage modulus (G[prime or minute]), critical gelation temperature (CGT) and critical gelation concentration (CGC). Spherical PLMA-PBzMA diblock copolymer nanoparticles can be prepared at up to 50% w/w solids and an efficient 'one-pot' protocol involving solution polymerization of LMA followed immediately by dispersion polymerization of BzMA has been developed. The latter formulation enables high BzMA conversions to be achieved, with spherical nanoparticles being produced at 30% w/w solids.
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