Polymerizations with multiple mechanisms performed simultaneously are promising but very challenging. As the key limitation, the complicated mutual influence between different mechanisms can be hardly defined and measured. Herein we establish a universal framework for the assessment of mutual influence between different mechanisms using binary polymerization for demonstration. The kinetics and thermodynamics of polymerization with two mechanisms are compared with the corresponding homopolymerization and the difference is expressed by a hybrid function. The hybrid function is composed of a hybrid parameter that describes the extent of mutual influence and a function that describes necessary conditions for mutual influence to occur. The extent of mutual influence can be calculated using kinetic and thermodynamic data without details of reaction mechanisms, for the first time providing a straightforward method to assess the mutual influence between different polymerization mechanisms. We envision that the method has potential in more complex systems with multiple mechanisms/monomers with mutual influence.

具有同时进行的多种机制的聚合是有希望的，但非常具有挑战性。作为关键限制，不同机制之间复杂的相互影响很难定义和衡量。在这里，我们建立了一个通用框架，用于评估不同机制之间的相互影响，使用二元聚合进行演示。将两种机理的聚合动力学和热力学与相应的均聚反应进行比较，差异用混合函数表示。混合函数由描述相互影响程度的混合参数和描述相互影响发生的必要条件的函数组成。可以使用动力学和热力学数据计算相互影响的程度，而无需详细说明反应机理，这首次提供了一种直接的方法来评估不同聚合机理之间的相互影响。我们设想该方法在具有相互影响的多种机制/单体的更复杂系统中具有潜力。