Polymer brush hypersurface photolithography [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Various lithographic approaches are being explored to create polymer brush patterns with micrometer-scale feature dimensions. Here the authors demonstrate a printing approach which allows independent control of the monomer composition and feature height ...
Carlos Carbonell +7 more
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Temperature-Responsive Polymer Brush Coatings for Advanced Biomedical Applications. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 Modern biomedical technologies predict the application of materials and devices that not only can comply effectively with specific requirements, but also enable remote control of their functions.
Nastyshyn S +6 more
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Responsive Polymer Brush Design and Emerging Applications for Nanotheranostics. [PDF]
Adv Healthc Mater, 2021 Responsive polymer brushes are a category of polymer brushes that are capable of conformational and chemical changes in response to external stimuli. They offer unique opportunities for the control of bio−nano interactions due to the precise control of ...
Li D, Xu L, Wang J, Gautrot JE.
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Modelling thermoresponsive polymer brush by mesoscale computer simulations [PDF]
Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 We consider a functional surface comprising thermoresponsive polymer chains, the material that has found numerous technological and biomedical applications.
D. Yaremchuk +2 more
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Polymer Brush Coating and Adhesion Technology at Scale. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2020 Creating strong joints between dissimilar materials for high-performance hybrid products places high demands on modern adhesives. Traditionally, adhesion relies on the compatibility between surfaces, often requiring the use of primers and thick bonding ...
Buhl KB +5 more
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Polymer brush in articular cartilage lubrication: Nanoscale modelling and simulation [PDF]
Biophysics and Physicobiology, 2019 Human knee joints move smoothly under high load conditions due to articular cartilage and synovial fluid. Much attention is paid to the role of proteoglycans.
Nobuhiko Kajinami, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
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Rapid Construction of Liquid-like Surfaces via Single-Cycle Polymer Brush Grafting for Enhanced Antifouling in Microfluidic Systems [PDF]
MicromachinesLiquid-like surfaces have demonstrated immense potential in their ability to resist cell adhesion, a critical requirement for numerous applications across various domains.
Feng Wu +9 more
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Pressure-driven flow of oligomeric fluid in nano-channel with complex structure. A dissipative particle dynamics study [PDF]
Condensed Matter Physics, 2016 We develop a simulational methodology allowing for simulation of the pressure-driven flow in the pore with flat and polymer-modified walls. Our approach is based on dissipative particle dynamics and we combine earlier ideas of fluid-like walls and ...
J.M. Ilnytskyi +2 more
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Electroosmotic Flow in Mixed Polymer Brush-Grafted Nanochannels. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2016 Mixed polymer brush-grafted nanochannels—where two distinct species of polymers are alternately grafted on the inner surface of nanochannels—are an interesting class of nanostructured hybrid materials.
Cao Q, You H.
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Polymer brush: a promising grafting approach to scaffolds for tissue engineering. [PDF]
BMB Rep, 2016 Polymer brush is a soft material unit tethered covalently on the surface of scaffolds. It can induce functional and structural modification of a substrate’s properties.
Kim W, Jung J.
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