SEMINAR: Bayliss Seminar Series

Conventional polymers are normally produced in a linear form. With the development of controlled chain polymerization methods, synthesis of polymers with different architectures becomes possible. New architectures can be made as block, star, multi-star, branched, tree-like or brush polymer forms. When different architectures made from biomacromolecules, these new materials can deliver new properties. There is a clear link between the macromolecular architecture made under a specific method and the function of the final products that material can provide in nanomedicine.   This seminar will introduce our recently developed a number of platform technologies based mordent polymer chemistry. Typical example will be photo-induced controlled polymerization using RAFT agent, Continuous Assembly of Polymer (CAP) technology, which creates macromolecular architectures in 3D forms. The 3rd example is PEG based hydrogel technology used as tissue engineering scaffolds. Specific examples will be presented for these platform technologies.