The water-based Controlled Radical Polymerization (CRP) has been one of the fastest growing fields of interest in polymer research for the past decades. "Nitroxide mediated polymerization" (NMP), "atomic transfer radical polymerization" (ATRP) and "reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer" (RAFT) are the most common methods used today. Besides these, a method was developed using 1,1-Diphenylethylene (DPE).
The synthesis of emulgator-, metall-, additive- and solvent free waterborne dispersions is possible with the DPE-method...