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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Biomater Adv. 2021 Nov 29;134:112576. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112576

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Mechanism of free radical polymerization (i) Initiation: Free radicals (*) are generation via homolytic photolysis of photoinitiator (ii) Propagation: Rapid addition of unreacted monomers/polymers result in polymers with end-group radicals (iii) Termination: Rapid chain-growth reaction was terminated via radical coupling, chain transfer agents or disproportionation reactions.