This reference/text addresses concepts and synthetic techniques for the preparation of polymers for state-of-the-art use in biomedicine, synthetic biology, and bionanotechnology.

Brigitte Voit is head of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF)Dresden, as well as professor of Organic Chemistry of Polymers at the University of Technology Dresden (TUD). In addition, she is heads the IPF Dresden as Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer (Scientific Director).

Rainer Haag is full professor in organic and macromolecular chemistry at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Dietmar Appelhans is a post-doctorial member in the working group of Professor Brigitte Voit at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) Dresden and focuses on dendritic polymers.