Polymerization in surpercritical carbon dioxide

Abstract

The recent progress of polymerization in supercritical carbon dioxide is reviewed. The advantage of supercritical carbon dioxide used as an environmental medium in polymerization and reactions in supercritical carbon dioxide are described. It includes homogeneous free radical polymerizations, precipitation free radical polymerizations, dispersion free radical polymerizations, emulsion and inverse emulsion free radical polymerizations, cationic polymerizations, ring-opening polymerization, melt-phase condensation polymerizations, sol-gel polymerizations, polymer blend synthesis, catalytic chain transfer polymerizations, oxidative coupling polymerization, nitroxide-mediated radical dispersion, atom-transfer radical polymerization, reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, electrochemical polymerization, simultaneous one-pot combination of enzymatic and chemical polymerization, copolymerization of carbon dioxide used as monomer.