Annealing a supported polymer film in the melt state, a common practice to relieve residual
stresses and erase thermal history, can result in the development of an irreversibly adsorbed …

With the rapid development of materials science, on-demand techniques are highly needed
with the capability to characterize materials in the micrometer and nanometer scales. In this …

We report that the nanometer-scale architecture of polymer chains plays a crucial role in its
protein resistant property over surface chemistry. Protein-repellent (noncharged), few …

Understanding the dynamic behavior of polymer chains adsorbed onto a solid surface is of
great importance for elucidating polymer–surface interactions. Here by using sum frequency …

In polymer thin films, the bottom polymer chains are irreversibly adsorbed onto the
substrates creating an ultrathin layer. Although this thin layer (only a few nanometers thick) …

The alternating current (AC) chip nano-calorimetry is a powerful tool to investigate the
physical properties of polymer thin films. In this paper, we report on the adsorption kinetics of …

In the present study, we investigated the surface reorganization behaviors and adsorption
conformations of fibrinogen on the surface of polyrotaxanes containing different amounts of …

Fouling is the undesirable accumulation of a material on a wide variety of objects and has
now become a widespread global problem from land to ocean with both economic and …

Dynamics of polymer chains near an interface with an inorganic material are believed to
strongly affect the physical properties of polymers in nanocomposites and thin films. An …

A simple approach to utilizing physically adsorbed layers consisting of nonfunctional
random and block copolymer chains is suggested for surface neutrality toward lamella …