Toward biodegradable nanogel star polymers via organocatalytic ROP

Eric A. Appel; Victor Y. Lee; Timothy T. Nguyen; Melanie McNeil; Frederik Nederberg; James L. Hedrick; William C. Swope; Julia E. Rice; Robert D. Miller; Joseph Sly

doi:10.1039/c2cc31406a

Chemical Communications

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23 May 2012

Toward biodegradable nanogel star polymers via organocatalytic ROP

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Abstract

Organocatalytic ring opening polymerization (OROP) is used to effect the rapid, scalable, room temperature formation of size-controlled, highly uniform, polyvalent, nanogel star polymer nanoparticles of biodegradable composition. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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