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Cover Image, Volume 58, Issue 16
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
eISSN - 2642-4169
pISSN - 2642-4150
DOI - 10.1002/pol.20200533
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , grafting , copolymer , monomer , cationic polymerization , polymer science , computer science , volume (thermodynamics) , polymer , polymer chemistry , chemistry , information retrieval , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics
Cationic graft copolymers containing biodegradable segments are promising candidates as gene delivery systems. In the study on page 2168 by Leon Perez and colleagues, the grafting of low‐molecular‐weight poly(2‐(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) to poly(esterco‐carbonate) backbones was achieved through two different approaches: grafting to and grafting from. The most versatile strategy for attaining a set of materials with a tailored structure and composition was grafting from, which in turn allowed for highlighting relationships between properties and copolymers' composition. (DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200204 )