Polymers are mainly synthesised by either step-growth polymerisation or chain-growth polymerisation. The two strategies are generally mutually exclusive, however ring-opening polymerisation may be utilised to form some step-growth polymers under specific conditions and using cyclic monomers. Typically, free-radical chain-growth polymerisation (used to form most commercial polymers) forms carbon-carbon backbone polymers which are limited in their applicability within global resin markets that underpin coatings, performance materials and advanced structures used in energy, aerospace and automotive industries. This feasibility project utilises a novel synthesis approach, created at the University of Liverpool, to use commercial monomers and industrially relevant conditions to form step-growth polymers under scale-able free-radical polymerisation conditions. This chemistry is entirely novel and in an early stage of development. It is believed that materials generated using this approach will be of considerable value to a number of industries as it allows innovation of material chemistry that is not available using current techniques, potentially delivering higher performance materials that have reduced cost and energy requirements for manufacture and decreases in environmentally extractable/leachable small molecule pollutants. Within the project, a range of materials will be synthesised, and their performance will be evaluated using industry-relevant testing, leading to critical data that will accelerate the technology towards commercial reality. This will be the first demonstration of free-radical derived step-growth polymers being tuned for new material behaviour and will open a pathway for global industry to create advanced materials from ubiquitous vinyl-monomer chemistries using conventional industrial practices. The feasibility project will act as the platform for decision-making within the team, allowing a strategy that will enable the UK to be at the forefront of this step-change in polymerisation chemistry and capture considerable value through rapid exploitation of the potential in global markets. First targets are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) formulation ingredients for applications that have release to the environment. Examples include molecules such as ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) which is an anthropogenic compound with highest concentrations in inland European waters; it has poor biodegradability (Qium. Nova, vol 26, no. 6, December 2003). Project will demonstrate functional equivalence, but with the inclusion of biodegradable linkages within the structures produced.