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Telechelic Polymer: Preparation and Application

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Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials

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End-functionalized polymer; Terminal reactive polymer

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Telechelic polymer is a class of reactive polymer possessing reactive functional groups at the chain ends, which are, not from monomers, deliberately introduced for further reactions. Polymers with complex architectures (nonlinear) bearing reactive groups at each of the chain ends are included in this category. It is acceptable that the polymer chain ends have either the same or different reactive functional groups. The latter asymmetrical telechelic polymers are distinctively called “heterotelechelic” polymers. Telechelic polymers are distinctively termed based on the number of reactive end groups: the terms “hemi-,” “di-,” and “tri-telechelic” polymers are used for polymers with one, two, and three reactive end groups, respectively (Fig. 1) [1]. Polymers having many reactive end groups are called “polytelechelic” polymers. Macromonomers in a strict sense are the special case of the hemi-telechelic polymers, in...

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Materials Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku,, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan

    Yasuhisa Tsukahara & Kaoru Adachi

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

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Tsukahara, Y., Adachi, K. (2015). Telechelic Polymer: Preparation and Application. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_201

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