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DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers (2008)
Journal Article
Hutchings, L. (2008). DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers. Soft Matter, 4(11), 2150-2159. https://doi.org/10.1039/b809634a

The past decade has seen an emerging interest in the design and synthesis of ever more complex, hierarchically branched polymers – often described as dendritically branched polymers. In part, this has been driven by the long-established desire of bot... Read More about DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers.

Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene (2008)
Journal Article
De Focatiis, D., Buckley, C., & Hutchings, L. (2008). Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene. Macromolecules, 41(12), 4484-4491. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma702157m

Visible craze initiation stress has been measured for a wide range of linear and branched monodisperse polystyrenes (PS) soaked in diethylene glycol. Results show that, for a given time under stress, craze initiation in linear PS is disentanglement-d... Read More about Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene.

HyperMacs – long chain hyperbranched polymers: A dramatically improved synthesis and qualitative rheological analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Clarke, N., De Luca, E., Dodds, J., Kimani, S., & Hutchings, L. (2008). HyperMacs – long chain hyperbranched polymers: A dramatically improved synthesis and qualitative rheological analysis. European Polymer Journal, 44(3), 665-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2007.12.022

We have previously reported a novel (albeit modestly successful) strategy for the synthesis of polystyrene HyperMacs – long chain branched analogues of hyperbranched polymers. The building blocks for HyperMacs, AB2 macromonomers are synthesized by li... Read More about HyperMacs – long chain hyperbranched polymers: A dramatically improved synthesis and qualitative rheological analysis.