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EPSRC Reference:	EP/F056974/1
Title:	Photocontrolled living Polymerizations: A New Route to Metallopolymers with Controlled Architectures
Principal Investigator:	Manners, Professor I
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Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Bristol
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 January 2009	Ends:	31 December 2011	Value (£):	331,172
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Synthesis & Growth
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 11 Mar 2008 Chemistry Prioritisation Panel Announced
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The fundamental research proposal outlines a programme aimed at understanding the mechanism and elucidating the synthetic scope of a photocontrolled living ring-opening polymerization (ROP) method for strained metal-containing rings. We anticipate that the proposed programme will lay the groundwork for the future exploitation of an extensive range of previously inaccessible metal-containing block copolymers. This will make a major contribution to the area of metal- containing block copolymers, a relatively unexplored but highly promising field, and subsequently to the areas of materials science and nanoscience. Once the synthetic scope of this novel polymerization process is understoset for applications to be targeted. This future aspect will be the subject of other research proposals.
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