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Combining spontaneous polymerization and click reactions for the synthesis of polymer brushes: a "grafting onto"

Andrea Cappelli1, Giorgio Grisci, Marco Paolino

  • 1Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico and European Research Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via A. Moro, 53100 Siena, Italy. andrea.cappelli@unisi.it

Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|July 10, 2013
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click reactionsmolecular recognitionphotograftingpolymersspontaneous polymerization

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