@inproceedings{c3d8f2e977ec404ca5ece4bf9f3cdd14,
title = "Direct synthetic strategies to hydrophilic starlike polymers by MADIX",
abstract = "Three direct synthetic routes to branched polymers based on poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) are proposed. Three-arm PAA stars were obtained by the {"}core-first{"} approach using trifunctional O-alkyl xanthates as reversible chain transfer agents for MADIX solution polymerization of acrylic acid (AA). Chain extension of PAA star precursors with acrylamide afforded double hydrophilic star-block copolymers. Star-like structures consisting of a microgel core were also prepared by the {"}arm-first{"} approach using linear chains derived by MADIX and N,N'-methylene-bis(acrylarnide) (MBA) as the linking agent. Finally, polymeric nanogels were synthesized by radical solution radical crosslinking copolymerization of AA and MBA in the presence of a O-ethyl xanthate as a MADIX agent. Up to 15% mol. of MBA could be incorporated without macrogel formation. Core-shell star structures were obtained by chain extension from the xanthate chain-ends present in these polymeric precursors.",
author = "Daniel Taton and Baussard, {Jean Fran{\c c}ois} and Ludovic Dupayage and Yves Gnanou and Mathias Destarac and Catherine Mignaud and Claire Pitois",
year = "2006",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0841239916",
series = "ACS Symposium Series",
pages = "578--594",
editor = "Krzysztof Matyjaszewski",
booktitle = "Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization from Synthesis to Materials",
}