@article{2959192,
    title = "Miktoarm Star (μ-Star) Polymers: A Successful Story",
    author = "Hermis Iatrou and Apostolos Avgeropoulos and Georgios Sakellariou and Marinos Pitsikalis and Nikos Hadjichristidis",
    pages = "1--30",
    publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
    doi = "10.1039/9781788010429-00001",
    abstract = "The term miktoarm stars (coming from the Greek word μιτσ meaning mixed) was adopted in 1992 by our group for star polymers with either chemical (e.g., A2B), molecular weight (e.g., A2A′), topological (e.g., (AB)2-junction-(BA)2), or functional group (e.g., AFA2) asymmetry. The first μ-stars synthesized by anionic polymerization, on the one hand, guided polymer chemists working with other types of polymerization techniques towards this direction and, on the other hand, helped polymer physicists to carry out experiments and develop theories on the influence of the architecture on the morphology of block copolymers. Synthetic strategies based on anionic polymerization, as well as a few examples showing the influence of the miktoarm structure on the morphology of block copolymers, are reviewed in this chapter. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017."
}