Nucleation-elongation: a mechanism for cooperative supramolecular polymerization.
The kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics of polymerizations following a cooperative, nucleation-elongation mechanism are discussed in comparison to those of non-cooperative, isodesmic polymerizations. Nucleation-elongation polymerization is a relatively unexplored avenue of synthetic polymer chemistry and offers some unique and interesting thermodynamic and kinetic attributes not found in the more classical mechanisms of polymer chemistry.
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Dahui
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Zhao
Jeffrey S
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Moore