Completely Aqueous Procedure for the Growth of Polymer Brushes on Polymeric Substrates

Improving the Stability in Aqueous Media

Improving the Stability in Aqueous Media of Polymer Brushes Grafted from Silicon Oxide Substrates by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

✍ Dusko Paripovic; Harm-Anton Klok 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 572 KB

## Abstract Hydrophilic polymer brushes grown via surface‐initiated ATRP from silicon oxide surfaces are susceptible to detachment via hydrolytic cleavage of the anchoring siloxane bond. This paper investigates the influence of the structure of the ATRP initiator on the stability of these brushes a