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  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
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hyperbranched polymersmulticyclic polymersreversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerizationself-accelerating click reactions

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