Patent ID: 7981444

Claim:
A dendritic polymer of Formula (I): wherein: (C) means a core; (FF) means a focal point functionality component of the core; y is 0 or 1: (BR) means a branch cell, which if p is greater than 1 (BR) may be the same or a different moiety; p is the total number of branch cells (BR) in the dendrimer and is an integer from 1 to 2000 derived by p = Total ⁢ ⁢ # ⁢ ⁢ of ⁢ ⁢ ( BR ) = ( N b G ⁢ ⁢ 1 N b + N b G ⁢ ⁢ 2 N b + N b G ⁢ ⁢ 3 N b + … ⁢ ⁢ N b G ⁢ ⁢ i N b ) N c = ( ∑ x = 0 x = i - 1 ⁢ ⁢ N b x ) N (IF) means interior functionality, which if q is greater than 1 (IF) may be the same or a different moiety; q is independently 0 or an integer from 1 to 2000; (EX) means an extender, which if m is greater than 1 (EX) may be the same or a different moiety; m is independently 0 or an integer from 1 to 1000; (TF) means a terminal functionality, which if z is greater than 1 (IF) may be the same or a different moiety; z means the number of surface groups from 1 to the theoretical number possible for the (BR) for a given generation (G) and is derived by z=N c N b G ; G is number of concentric branch cell shells surrounding the core, where the upper limit is the attained at the deGennes dense-packed stage; N b is branch cell multiplicity; and N c is core multiplicity and is an integer from 1 to 1000; and with the proviso that at least one of (EX) or (IF) is present.