The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis,
Characterization, Properties, and Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN …

Polymer brushes have become a significant focus of polymer research with the need for
straightforward and versatile surface modification. With the development of controlled radical …

Synthetic materials capable of responses to external or internal stimuli represent one of the
most exciting and emerging areas of scientific interest and unexplored commercial …

Recent achievements in the construction of surfaces with special wettabilities, such as
superhydrophobicity, superhydrophilicity, superoleophobicity, superoleophilicity …

The generation of nano-microstructured polymer film surfaces has been a challenge during
the last decades. Advances in the fabrication of structured polymer surfaces to obtain micro …

Polymer brushes produced by controlled surface-initiated polymerization provide a route to
surfaces coated with well-defined thin polymer films that are covalently bound to the …

Wettability is a very important property that is governed by both chemical composition and
surface structure.[1–9] Recently, the control of surface wettability has aroused great interest …

Developing microscale sensors capable of force measurements down to the scale of
piconewtons is of fundamental importance for a wide range of applications. To date …

This critical review outlines the current state-of-the-art research on the reversibly switchable
wettability of surface brought about by external stimuli and the exchange of counterions …