Affiliation: | a Department of Chemistry, Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA b Laboratoire de Chimie Macromoléculaire, Unité Mixte associée au CNRS, UMR 7610, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Tour 44, 1er étage, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France |
Abstract: | Controlled/living radical polymerizations carried out in the presence of water have been examined. These aqueous systems include both the homogeneous solutions and the various heterogeneous media, namely dispersion, suspension, emulsion and miniemulsion. Among them, the most common methods allowing control of the radical polymerization, such as nitroxide-mediated polymerization, atom transfer radical polymerization and reversible transfer, are presented in detail. |