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These form extremely attractive molecular targets. Nanotechnological applications range from microelectronics to biomedical devices.2 Other proposed applications are:

• coatings
• resins
• additives,
• analytical techniques
• medicine
• drug and dye delivery
• molecular imprinting
• organic polymer synthesis
• catalysis
• optoelectronic applications.

Dendrimers and dendrons are symmetrically branched polymer structures that possess a well-defined spatial distribution of functional groups. The properties of dendrimers are steered by controlling the generation number, repeating unit, end groups. hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity are controlled by the functionality of the end groups.