Polymer brushes here, there, and everywhere: Recent advances in their practical applications and emerging opportunities in multiple research fields

O Azzaroni - Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up surface processing with well‐defined polymeric structures becomes increasingly
important in many current technologies. Polymer brushes, that is, assemblies of …

Polymer brushes by the “grafting to” method

B Zdyrko, I Luzinov - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on the attachment of densely grafted polymer layers (polymer brushes)
to various inorganic and polymeric substrates by the “grafting to” method. A brief overview of …

On the Immobilized Polymer Fraction in Attractive Nanocomposites: Tg Gradient versus Interfacial Layer

C Fernández-de-Alba, AM Jimenez, M Abbasi… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We study the slowing down of polymer dynamics in canonical nanocomposites made of
strongly interacting mixtures of poly-2-vinyl pyridine and silica nanoparticles (radius R= 7±2 …

Cleaning of protein-coated surfaces using nanobubbles: an investigation using a quartz crystal microbalance

G Liu, Z Wu, VSJ Craig - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2008 - ACS Publications
The use of nanobubbles as cleaning agents to remove bovine serum albumin from the
solid− liquid interface has been investigated using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance to both …

Strong reduction in amplitude of the interfacial segmental dynamics in polymer nanocomposites

I Popov, B Carroll, V Bocharova, AC Genix… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the wide use of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) in various applications, our
understanding of the microscopic parameters controlling their macroscopic properties …

Direct Observation of the Phase Transition for a Poly(N-isopropylacryamide) Layer Grafted onto a Solid Surface by AFM and QCM-D

N Ishida, S Biggs - Langmuir, 2007 - ACS Publications
The temperature-induced structural changes of a thermo-responsive poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) layer grafted onto a silica substrate were investigated in …

Adsorption of pluronic F-127 on surfaces with different hydrophobicities probed by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation

MR Nejadnik, ALJ Olsson, PK Sharma… - Langmuir, 2009 - ACS Publications
Triblock copolymers of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and polypropylene oxide (PPO), that is,
PEO n-PPO m-PEO n, better known as Pluronic can adsorb to surfaces in either a pancake …

Assembly and functionalization of DNA− polymer microcapsules

F Cavalieri, A Postma, L Lee, F Caruso - Acs Nano, 2009 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis and characterization of DNA-grafted poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(
PNIPAM) micelles, their assembly into multilayered thin films, and the subsequent …

SI-PET-RAFT in flow: improved control over polymer brush growth

AR Kuzmyn, M van Galen, B van Lagen, H Zuilhof - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-initiated photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition–fragmentation chain
transfer (SI-PET-RAFT) provides a light-dependent tool to synthesize polymer brushes on …

Effect of Grafting Density on Phase Transition Behavior for Poly(N-isopropylacryamide) Brushes in Aqueous Solutions Studied by AFM and QCM-D

N Ishida, S Biggs - Macromolecules, 2010 - ACS Publications
The effect of grafting density on the phase transition behavior of poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) grafted onto a flat substrate was investigated using an …