Polyolefins are today considered to be indispensable materials. To broaden their applications even further, a lot of effort has been made to create new olefinic hybrid polymers, polyolefin/inorganic materials, and polyolefin/organic materials, etc. Recently, our research group successively produced polyolefin/polar polymer hybrid polymers by using controlled radical polymerization with PO macroinitiator method. In this paper, we will introduce and discuss the properties and applications of hybrid polymers by polyolefin macroinitiator method.
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