Telechelic Polymers Supramolecular polymers

Scope

Telechelic polymers belong to a very important and special category of polymers, as these are the highly reactive polymers that are used in the synthesis of many kinds of polymers, and in a way they can also be called architecture polymers. Telechelic polymers are known by many different names like “telechelic” or “prepolymers” and many more. Telechelic polymers have obtained various architectures to date like Block Copolymers, Graft Copolymers, Segmented Networks, Cyclic Polymers, Chain extended Polymers, Star Polymers, etc. Telechelic Polymers are an extremely reactive category of polymers with functional groups at their chain ends and based on these functional groups, these polymers are divided into three categories (i) heterotelechelic (ii) semitelechelic (iii) telechelic. Telechelic polymers are crucial for the creation of block copolymers because they serve as the build for the copolymers' structural designs. Particularly, the development of thermoplastic elastomers has sparked significant industry interest in ABA triblock copolymers. Telechelic polymers acting as the foundation polymers have given many structures and products and to strengthen this foundation, the Journal of Polymer & Composites has come up with this special issue Telechelic Polymers.

Keywords: Reactive Polymer, Monomer, Polytelechelic, Transition metal compounds, Copolyesters, Functional Polymer, Block copolymer, Anionic Polymerization, Polymer brushes, Homopolymers, Radical polymerization, Comb copolymers, Electropolymerization, Polymeric diols, Epoxy prepolymers