Recent advances in dendritic polymers

Interest in dendritic polymers has increased nearly exponentially in the past few years. Dendritic polymers are now recognized as a fourth major class of macromolecular architecture. New applications, based on these structure-controlled architectures, have made this area the object of wide interdisciplinary interest. Recent advances in organometallic constructs, dendritic processes, catalysis, electron conduction, gene vectoring and guest—host chemistry have kindled activities in such diverse areas as material, interfacial, supramolecular and life sciences.