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Polymer Brushes for Surface Tuning

✍ Scribed by Petra Uhlmann; Holger Merlitz; Jens-Uwe Sommer; Manfred Stamm

Book ID
102943094
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
733 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Mixed polymer brushes as functional ultra thin films for surface functionalization have an enormous potential to create a variety of smart, switchable, and multifunctional surfaces and thin films. It is shown how computer simulations can contribute to a better understanding of the switching behavior of brushes. Furthermore, it is described how polymer brushes can be used to create surfaces with switchable ultrahydrophobicity and wettability gradients, as well as functional layers for the immobilization of nanoparticles. Applications of these versatile and multifunctional brush coatings are envisioned in many areas including fluid control, microfluidics, and thin film sensors.

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Materials scientists, polymer chemists, surface physicists and materials engineers will find this book a complete and detailed treatise on the field of polymer brushes, their synthesis, characterization and manifold applications. In a first section, the various synthetic pathways and different surfa