Ten Problems in Polymer Reactivity Prediction

IF 5.1 1区化学 Q1 POLYMER SCIENCE

Macromolecules Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.4c02582

Nicholas E. Jackson, Brett M. Savoie

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Abstract

The phrase “polymer theory” is typically associated with classical predictions of structural, thermodynamic, or mechanical properties in which chemical structure is treated nonspecifically. This is because historically, modeling chemically specific polymer phenomena or predicting their properties required prohibitively costly computational methods. However, recent methodological developments have made previously inaccessible polymer reactivity predictions now potentially addressable with a combination of data-driven and physics-based computational approaches. This perspective highlights ten such problems, showcases related previous successes, and speculates on what the near future holds as working solutions to polymer reactivity prediction become available.

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Macromolecules 工程技术-高分子科学

CiteScore

9.30

自引率

16.40%

发文量

942

审稿时长

2 months

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