A versatile modular system for complex branched polymer architectures has been developed through exploitation of the multibranching polymerization chemistry of glycidol. This report summarizes recent advances in the preparation of these novel polymers and describes the modular concept used to tailor their topology to give functional materials, such as the dye-loaded molecular nanocapsule depicted in the Figure.
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Sunder et al. (2000) studied this question.