Abstract
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is one of the most versatile controlled/living radical polymerization (CLRP) method for the production of well-defined materials. As a consequence, ATRP has been employed for the synthesis of a large variety of materials, e. g. end-functional oligomers (telechelics, macromonomers), copolymers (statistical, gradient, block, graft, brush, star), hyperbrached polymers, organic - inorganic hybrids (organic - inorganic block and graft copolymers, polymer - layered silicate nanocomposites and polymer - grafted nanoparticles and flat surfaces), etc. The present paper briefly reviews these ATRP applications, in completion to the previous article dealing with ATRP fundamentals [1]. Keywords: atom transfer radical polymerization, block copolymers, graft copolymers, end-functional oligomers, organic-inorganic hybrids