Chemoresponsive polymer structures containing dynamic covalent imine bonds have been created using RAFT polymerisation. The team from Newcastle University, UK, fabricated core-cross-linked star polymers using diblock copolymers containing ‘inert’ and ‘reactive’ blocks. The also team made nanogels using methacrylate copolymers that cross-link by forming kinetically stable imine bonds in organic solvents.
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Alexander W. Jackson, Christopher Stakes and David A. Fulton, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 2500-2511
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