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The RAFT process, a “living” polymerization : a new step towards well-designed polymer architectures

Orateur :

Marie-Thérèse Charreyre, Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, ENS-Lyon et Laboratoire Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, INSA-Lyon

Salle :

C023 (RDC LR6 côté CECAM)

Quand :

03/12/2008 à 11:00

Sujet :

In this presentation that will be especially aimed at non-chemists, I will introduce in a simple way the RAFT process, a new living/controlled radical polymerization that revolutionizes polymer synthesis.

This original polymerization technique has made possible what was impossible with conventional polymerization : to predict the size of a polymer chain, synthesize homogeneous polymer chains (with a narrow size distribution) and access to polymer architectures such as block copolymers from a wide variety of monomers and consequently with a wide variety of properties and applications.

Indeed, there is an increasing interest in such well-designed polymer architectures for many fields including biology and medicine. It is now possible to introduce different kinds of biomolecules precisely located along the polymer chain : saccharides, phospholipids, oligonucleotides, ligands like biotin, and also fluorophores. The resulting bioconjugates have many potential applications and the presentation will be illustrated by several examples from in vitro diagnostics.

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