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 maternal, interfacial, supramolecular and life sciences.