High molecular weight polymer solutions have a powerful tendency to deposit adsorbed
layers when exposed to even mildly attractive surfaces. The equilibrium properties of these …

Physisorption or chemisorption from dilute polymer solutions often entails irreversible
polymer-surface bonding. We present a theory of the resultant nonequilibrium layers. While …

We present a new scaling approach to describe an arbitrarily dense polymer interface (layer
made of overlapping polymer chains). Our analysis is based on a description of the layer in …

The structure of an adsorbed polymer layer in equilibrium with a dilute good solvent is
considered theoretically. It is shown that under saturation conditions the tails of the polymer …

Irreversibly adsorbed polymer layers represent an intriguing new class of materials with
unexpected properties, strongly deviating from what observed in unbounded polymer melts …

For almost a decade, growing experimental evidence has revealed a strong correlation
between the properties of nanoconfined polymers and the number of chains irreversibly …

The properties of polymer coated surfaces which are incompletely saturated are studied
using both mean field theory and the scaling theory of polymer adsorption from a semidilute …

We study irreversible polymer adsorption from dilute solutions theoretically. Universal
features of the resultant non-equilibrium layers are predicted. Two broad cases are …

We discuss the equilibrium properties of flexible chains adsorbed on a flat surface,
assuming that a) adsorption is weak, resulting in large thicknesses D for the adsorption …

It is widely appreciated that an attractive polymer-substrate interaction can slow relaxation in
thin supported polymer films and polymer nanocomposites. Recent measurements and …