... dendrimers, dendronized polymers, and dendrigrafts canbe obtained from relevant review papers and books. This book will focus on synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of HPs.1.4 ... engineers, students, teachers and enterprisersto grow, irrigate, and cultivate molecular “trees” and make them further bloom and flourish in the near future.Deyue Yan,Chao Gao,andHolger FreyMarch, ... editor for Wiley and Wiley-VCH publishers, we started to conceive and organize the edition of this book since May, 2005. In 2005 and 2006, Chao and Holger met at Mainz, Bayreuth, and Freiburg, Germany...