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Degradable Vinyl Random Copolymers via Photocontrolled Radical Ring‐Opening Cascade Copolymerization**

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Six Atom Elongated Radical Polymerization Enabled by 1,5-Hydrogen Atom Transfer

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pH‐Controlled Reversible Folding of Copolymers via Formation of β‐sheet Secondary Structures

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Insertion of Degradable Thioester Linkages into Styrene and Methacrylate PolymersPreprint

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Topochemical Ring-Opening Polymerization of an Oxathianethione

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Degradable N-Vinyl Copolymers through Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Thionocarbamates

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Synthesis of Poly(propylene oxide)–Poly(N,N′-dimethylacrylamide) Diblock Copolymer Nanoparticles via Reverse Sequence Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly in Aqueous Solution

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Visible light-induced photo-radical ring-opening copolymerization of thionolactone and acrylates

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Synthesis of Degradable Polyethylene and Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) by Radical Co- and Terpolymerization of Ethylene, ε-Thionocaprolactone, and Vinyl Acetate

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Monomer Design Enables Mechanistic Mapping of Anionic Ring‐Opening Polymerization of Aromatic Thionolactones

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Biodegradability of Acrylate-Lipoic Acid Copolymers

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Radical Copolymerization of 2‐Thiocyanatoethyl Substituted Acrylate to Introduce Thiol‐Acrylate‐Based Dynamic Bonds as Degradable Linker

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The successful impossible radical ring-opening copolymerization of thionolactones and methacrylates via an auxiliary third comonomer

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Thionolactone as a Resin Additive to Prepare (Bio)degradable 3D Objects via VAT Photopolymerization**

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Conformational preorganization of neighbouring groups modulates and expedites polymer self-deconstruction

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Thioester-rich degradable copolymers from a thionolactone and S-vinyl and P-vinyl monomers

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Synthesis of Novel Thioester Functional Copolymers and their Degradation Studies

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Degradable Linear and Bottlebrush Thioester-Functional Copolymers through Atom-Transfer Radical Ring-Opening Copolymerization of a Thionolactone

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Synthesis of Degradable Polymers Using Thionolactone and Cyclic Xanthate Monomers

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Degradable Latexes by Nitroxide-mediated Aqueous Seeded Emulsion Copolymerization Using a Thionolactone

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