A new procedure is described for surface grafting polymer brushes by step-growth polymerization from initiator-embedded polymeric thin films and micron- and nanometer-scale patterns. An imprint lithographic process, nanocontact molding, was used to prepare thin patterned cross-linked polyacrylate network films on silicon wafers that incorporated 4-bromostyrene in the networks. These networks pr...

Cobalt-catalyzed step growth polymerization of undec-10-en-1-ol and CO affords aliphatic polyesters (Mn > 10(4) g mol(-1)) based entirely on renewable resources.

A novel method for the step-growth polymerization of diphenyldithienothiophene in the presence of diphenyliodonium salt by photoinduced electron transfer is described.

New fluorovinylene aromatic ether polymers, possessing dual reactivity, have been successfully prepared via the step-growth polymerization of commercial bis(trifluorovinyl) aromatic ethers and bisphenols.