Current Development on the Application of Polystyrene Telechelic Polymers for Macromolecular Structure Design

  • Mr Jian Zhang, ECUST University (China) and WASM, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  • Mrs Yao Zhang, WASM, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  • Professor Anna Zheng, ECUST University, China
  • Mr Yuan Tian, WASM, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  • Mrs Fei Wu, School of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  • A/Professor Haipeng Wang, WASM, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

    • Various applications of the polystyrene telechelic polymers with versatile macromolecular structures are discussed in this paper. Usually, block or graft copolymer containing polystyrene segment with complicated structure are not easily synthesized using one-step-process. Hence, organic reactions between macromolecules or between small molecule and macromolecules play an important role under these circumstances. Current development in synthesis of various copolymers derived from polystyrene telechelic polymers and other telechelic polymers are reviewed in this article.