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Star polymers are an important class of polymers that have attracted significant attention in the last years [2–4]. This can be attributed to unique properties originating from their condensed structure, non-linear shape, and multiple chain ends per macromolecule.
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DLS measurements were performed in collaboration with T. Rudolph and Prof. F. H. Schacher (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena). ROESY measurements were performed in collaboration with M. Hetzer and Prof. H. Ritter (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf). Parts of this chapter were reproduced from Schmidt et al. [1] with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Schmidt, B.V.K.J. (2014). Supramolecular Three Armed Star Polymers. In: Novel Macromolecular Architectures via a Combination of Cyclodextrin Host/Guest Complexation and RAFT Polymerization. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06077-4_5
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