The reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization was a new living/controlled radical polymerization. The application of RAFT polymerization of synthesize polymers with narrow molecular weight has unique advantage
The mechanism
characteristics and the choices of RAFT reagents were introduced in the paper. RAFT polymerization has exhibited wide applications in molecular structure design
such as random
block
gradient
graft
star
dendritic and comb copolymer. In addition
the development and research trend of RAFT were also presented.