FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS Design, Synthesis, and Applications FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS Design, Synthesis, and Applications Edited by Raja Shunmugam Apple Academic Press Inc. Apple Academic Press Inc. 3333 Mistwell Crescent 9 Spinnaker Way Oakville, ON L6L 0A2 Waretown, NJ 08758 Canada USA ©2017 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. No claim to original U.S. Government works Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-296-5 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-315-36652-4 (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis eBook) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-297-2 (AAP eBook) All rights reserved. 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Shunmugam, Raja, author, editor TP1087.F85 2016 668.9 C2016-906164-7 C2016-906165-5 CIP data on file with US Library of C ongress Apple Academic Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic format. For information about Apple Academic Press products, visit our website at www.appleacademicpress.com and the CRC Press website at www.crcpress.com ABOUT THE EDITOR Raja Shunmugam, PhD Raja Shunmugam, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Ramanujan Fellow at the Polymer Research Centre, Department of Chemical Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He was formerly an Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India. Dr. Shunmugam has written a number of articles published in international journals and holds several patents. He has been an invited presenter at several international confer- ences. He performed his postdoctoral work at the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Dedicated to IISER Kolkata, India CONTENTS List of Contributors ............................................................................xi List of Abbreviations and Symbols ...................................................xiii Preface .............................................................................................xxv Part I: Controlled/Living Polymerizations of Functional Monomers ....1 1. Synthesis of Functional Polymers of Polar and Nonpolar Monomers by Living and/or Controlled Polymerization ............................3 Sumana Roy Chowdhury and Swaminathan Sivaram 2. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: A Key Tool Towards the Design and Synthesis of Functional Polymers ............................................57 Venkatanarasimhan Swarnalatha, Mukundamurthy Kannan, and Raghavachari Dhamodharan 3. Synthesis of Chain End Functional Polymers by Living Cationic Polymerization Method ...............................................................127 Sanjib Banerjee, Badri Nath Jha, Rajeev Kumar, Binoy Maiti, Ujjal Haldar, and Priyadarsi De Part II: Advanced Synthetic Strategies for Making Biodegradable Functional Materials .......................................................................149 4. Structural Diversity in Synthetic Polypeptides by Ring Opening Polymerization of N-Carboxy Anhydrides ................................151 Dipankar Basak and Suhrit Ghosh 5. Enzymatic and Biomimetic Approaches to the Synthesis of Electrically Conducting Polymers .............................................................191 Subhalakshmi Nagarajan, Jayant Kumar, and Ramaswamy Nagarajan 6. Thermoreversible Ion Gels from Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Brushes Diblock Copolymers .................................................241 Chi Thanh Nguyen, Prashant Deshmukh, Xiaorui Chen, Sergio Granados-Focil, and Rajeswari M. Kasi 7. Maleimide Containing Thiol-Reactive Polymers: Synthesis and Functionalization ................................................................265 Mehmet Arslan, Tugce Nihal Gevrek, and Amitav Sanyal