Responsive polymer systems have the ability to change properties or behavior in response
to external stimuli. The properties of responsive polymer systems can be fine‐tuned by …

Polymer surface modification has been a significant issue over two decades in many fields
of application. Among modification techniques developed to date, surface grafting has …

The properties of paper are largely dependent on the bonds between the fibres. This is, of
course, primarily true of those strength properties that are directly related to the number of …

A mechanistic understanding of adhesion in soft materials is critical in the fields of
transportation (tires, gaskets, and seals), biomaterials, microcontact printing, and soft …

We present a general energy approach to study the unsteady adhesive contact of
viscoelastic materials. Under the assumption of infinitely short-range adhesive interactions …

Viscoelasticity and rate-dependent adhesion of soft matter lead to difficulties in modelling
the'relatively simple'problem of a rigid sphere in contact with a viscoelastic half-space. For …

Using a surface forces apparatus (SFA) and an atomic force microscope (AFM) we have
studied the effects of surface roughness (root-mean-square (RMS) roughness between 0.3 …

The formation and disappearance of liquid bridges between two surfaces can occur either
through equilibrium or nonequilibrium processes. In the first instance, the bridge molecules …

Using a surface forces apparatus we studied the adhesion and friction of glassy polystyrene
(PS) and poly (vinylbenzyl chloride)(PVBC) surfaces having various molecular weights (MW) …

Poly (n-butyl methacrylate)(PBMA) or poly (n-butyl acrylate)(PBA)-grafted brush coatings
attached to glass were successfully prepared using atom-transfer radical polymerization …