Non-vinyl-based ‘grafted from’ polymer brushes have generated much interest and growth in the past decade due to the potential for stiffer backbones, long-range order, and new backbone functional groups, compared to the traditional vinyl-based polymer brushes. This area of polymer brushes has been spurred on by recent advancements of new polymerization techniques, such as chain-growth condensation polymerization, that allow for the conversion of traditional step-growth polymers into the required chain-growth polymers to form polymer brushes via the ‘grafting from’ technique [1]. This exciting new category of polymer brushes forms semi-flexible or rigid-rod structures that have potential in a variety of applications including organic photovoltaics, organic light emitting diodes, tribological coatings, membranes for water purification and desalination, membranes for fuel cells, high performance coatings, and biosensing due to aromatic groups in the backbone, secondary bonding forces connecting chains, or conjugated backbones [2], [3]. This review will focus on the synthesis and characterization of non-vinyl-based polymer brushes, primarily prepared via the ‘grafting from’ technique, while also including an overview of potential applications of these systems and highlighting prospective areas for future developments.

与传统的乙烯基聚合物刷相比，非乙烯基“接枝”聚合物刷在过去十年中引起了人们的极大兴趣和增长，这是因为它们具有更坚硬的骨架，远距离有序性和新的骨架官能团。聚合物刷的这一领域已受到新聚合技术（例如链增长缩聚）的最新发展的刺激，该技术允许将传统的逐步增长聚合物转化为所需的链增长聚合物，从而通过“技术嫁接[1]。这种令人兴奋的新型聚合物刷形成了半柔性或刚性杆状结构，在各种应用中具有潜力，包括有机光伏，有机发光二极管，摩擦涂层，用于水净化和脱盐的膜，用于燃料电池的膜，高性能涂料以及由于主链中的芳族基团，连接链或共轭主链的次级键合力而引起的生物传感[2]，[3]。这篇综述将集中在非乙烯基聚合物刷的合成和表征上，主要是通过“嫁接”技术制备的，同时还将概述这些系统的潜在应用并突出未来发展的前景。