| After completion of the course, students will be able to
• understand the general concepts of functional polymers [k1, k2].
• know and understand the synthetic approaches of producing functional polymers [k1, k2].
• know and understand exemplary formats of functional polymers and their characteristics [k1, k2, k4, k5].
• know and understand the applicabilities of functional polymers [k1, k2, k3, k5].
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• Functional Polymers: Introduction.
• Controlled Radical Polymerization: Fundamentals of Controlled/living Radical Polymerization (CRP), Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP), Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization (NMP), Reversible/Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer polymerization (RAFT) and Nanostructured functional materials.
• Click Chemistry: General remarks, thiol-ene and thiol-yne click chemistry, copper-catalyzed ‘click’ chemistry for surface engineering, Diels–Alder cycloaddition and multifunctional network polymers, copper-free click chemistry, nanomaterials and click chemistry.
• Functional and Reactive Polyolefins: Preparation of functional polyolefins and applications.
• Functional polymers for interesting applications: Functional polymers as chemical sensors and biomedical tools.
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