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 surface materials are introduced and explained, followed by a second section covering important aspects of characterization and analysis in both flat surfaces and particles. These specific surface initiated polymerization (SIP) systems such as linear polymers, homopolymers, block copolymers, and hyperbranched polymers are unique compared to previously reported systems by chemisorption or physisorption. They have found their way in both large-scale and miniature applications of polymer brushes, which is covered in the last section. Such 'hairy' surfaces offer fascinating opportunities for addressing numerous problems of both academic and, in particular, industrial interest: high-quality, functional or protective coatings, composite materials, surface engineered particles, metal-organic interfaces, biological applications, micro-patterning, colloids, nanoparticles, functional devices, and many more. It is the desire of the authors that this book will be of benefit to readers who want to "brush-up on polymers".Content:
Chapter 1 Recent Advances in Polymer Brush Synthesis (pages 33โ50): Anthony M. Granville and William J. Brittain
Chapter 2 Polymer Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (pages 51โ68): Jeffrey Pyun, Tomasz Kowalewski and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Chapter 3 Polymer Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Initiated from Macroinitiator Synthesized on the Surface (pages 69โ86): Viktor Klep, Bogdan Zdyrko, Yong Liu and Igor Luzinov
Chapter 4 Synthesis of Polypeptide Brushes (pages 87โ103): Henning Menzel and Peter Witte
Chapter 5 Bottle Brush Brushes: Ring?Opening Polymerization of Lactide from Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Surfaces (pages 105โ117): Jong?Bum Kim, Wenxi Huang, Chun Wang, Merlin Bruening and Gregory L. Baker
Chapter 6 Preparation of Well?Defined Organic?Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures Using Living Cationic Surface?Initiated Polymerization from Silica Nanoparticles (pages 119โ128): Il?Jin Kim, Su Chen and Rudolf Faust
Chapter 7 Photoinitiated Polymerization from Self?Assembled Monolayers (pages 129โ150): Daniel J. Dyer, Jianxin Feng, Charles Fivelson, Rituparna Paul, Rolf Schmidt and Tongfeng Zhao
Chapter 8 Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Rearrangement of Block Copolymer Brushes (pages 151โ165): Stephen G. Boyes, Anthony M. Granville, Marina Baum, Bulent Akgun, Brian K. Mirous and William J. Brittain
Chapter 9 Surface?Grafted Hyperbranched Polymers (pages 167โ186): Hideharu Mori and Axel H. E. Muller
Chapter 10 The Analysis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes: From Flat Surfaces to Nanoparticles (pages 187โ212): Rigoberto C. Advincula
Chapter 11 Characterization of Polymer Brushes on Nanoparticle Surfaces (pages 213โ230): Thomas A. P. Seery, Mark Jordi, Rosette Guino and Dale Huber
Chapter 12 Spherical Polyelectrolyte Brushes (pages 231โ248): Matthias Ballauff
Chapter 13 Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Complex Formation and Multilayer Build?up with Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes (pages 249โ272): Rupert Konradi, Haining Zhang, Markus Biesalski and Jurgen Ruhe
Chapter 14 Structure and Properties of High?Density Polymer Brushes (pages 273โ286): Yoshinobu Tsujii, Muhammad Ejaz, Shinpei Yamamoto, Kohji Ohno, Kenji Urayama and Takeshi Fukuda
Chapter 15 Behavior of Surface?Anchored Poly(acrylic acid) Brushes with Grafting Density Gradients on Solid Substrates (pages 287โ315): Tao Wu, Jan Genzer, Peng Gong, Igal Szleifer, Petr Vlc?ek and Vladimir S?ubr
Chapter 16 Kinetics of Polymer Brush Formation With and Without Segmental Adsorption (pages 317โ328): Lynn S. Penn, Heqing Huang, Roderic P. Quirk and Tae H. Cheong
Chapter 17 Applications of Polymer Brushes and Other Surface?Attached Polymers (pages 329โ370): Kenneth C. Caster
Chapter 18 Polymer Brushes: Towards Applications (pages 371โ380): Gregory L. Whiting, Tamer Farhan and Wilhelm T. S. Huck
Chapter 19 Polymerization, Nanopatterning and Characterization of Surface?Confined, Stimulus?Responsive Polymer Brushes (pages 381โ402): Marian Kaholek, Woo?kyung Lee, Bruce LaMattina, Kenneth C. Caster and Stefan Zauscher
Chapter 20 Mixed Polymer Brushes: Switching of Surface Behavior and Chemical Patterning at the Nanoscale (pages 403โ425): Sergiy Minko, Marcus Muller, Valeriy Luchnikov, Mikhail Motomov, Denys Usov, Leonid Ionov and Manfred Stamm
Chapter 21 Local Chain Organization of Switchable Binary Polymer Brushes in Selective Solvents (pages 427โ440): Melbs C. LeMieux, Denys Usov, Sergiy Minko, Manfred Stamm and Vladimir V. Tsukruk
Chapter 22 Motion of Nano?Objects Induced by a Switchable Polymer Carpet (pages 441โ448): Svetlana Prokhorova, Alexey Kopyshev, Ayothi Ramakrishnan and Jurgen Ruhe
Chapter 23 Photochemical Strategies for the Preparation and Microstructuring of Densely Grafted Polymer Brushes on Planar Surfaces (pages 449โ469): Oswald Prucker, Rupert Konradi, Martin Schimmel, Jorg Habicht, In?Jun Park and Jurgen Ruhe