“…General reviews include those by Moad, Rizzardo and Thang (14,15,(62)(63)(64)(65) Destarac (66), and Barner-Kowollik et al (67). Reviews devoted to RAFT or RAFT polymerization in specific areas include those on the origins of RAFT polymerization (3), the design and synthesis of RAFT agents (48), advances in Switchable RAFT agents (68,69), dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization (70), RAFT chemistry using xanthates (4,71), RAFT polymerization of vinyl esters (72), RAFT crosslinking polymerization (73), RAFT polymerization in microemulsion (74), RAFT polymerization induced self-assembly (75,76), the synthesis of block copolymers (77), the synthesis of star polymers and other complex architectures (78)(79)(80)(81), block copolymers based on amino acid-derived monomers (82), end group removal and transformation (83)(84)(85)(86), the synergistic use of RAFT polymerization and ATRP (87), microwave-assisted RAFT polymerization (88,89), silica nanoparticles (90), polymer nanocomposites (91,92), the use of RAFT-synthesized polymers in gene-delivery (93), drug delivery and bioapplications (79,(94)(95)(96)(97)…”