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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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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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Neutron investigation of interaction between anionic surfactant micelles and poly (ethylene glycol) polymer brush system [PDF]
Ядерна фізика та енергетика, 2021 A polymer brush system of a neutral polymer poly (ethylene glycol) with a molecular weight of Mw = 20 kDa on silicon substrates in an aqueous medium was studied by the specular neutron reflectometry. Structural changes in the density profile of a polymer
O. P. Artykulnyi +5 more
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Design and Synthesis of Quick Setting Nonswelling Hydrogels via Brush Polymers
Advanced Science, 2021 Brush polymers have emerged as components of novel materials that show huge potential in multiple disciplines and applications, including self‐assembling photonic crystals, drug delivery vectors, biomimetic lubricants, and ultrasoft elastomers.
Fei Jia +4 more
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Atomic Force Microscopy of Polymer Brushes: Insights into Controversies
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2022 Atomic force microscopes (AFM) and nanoindenters have been used for decades to evaluate mechanical properties of thin films at the nanoscale. It is argued that the elastic solutions to the indentation problem, which are most often associated with the ...
Ivan Argatov +3 more
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Molecular Transport within Polymer Brushes: A FRET View at Aqueous Interfaces
Molecules, 2022 Molecular permeability through polymer brush chains is implicated in surface lubrication, wettability, and solute capture and release. Probing molecular transport through polymer brushes can reveal information on the polymer nanostructure, with a ...
Quinn A. Besford +8 more
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Advances in Polymer Technology, 2022 This paper focuses on the effect of degree of polymerization (N), density (σ), and pattern size (x) on the interaction force between a periodically patterned Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) brush and protein. The hydrophobic interaction, the Van der
Getachew Tizazu
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Construction of pendant group functional HTPB and efficient light-harvesting carrier
Polymer Testing, 2023 The synthesis, characterization and application of the polymers with functional pendant groups have always been hot topics in the polymer field. A kind of functional polybutadiene (HTPB) derivative containing anthryl and azide groups was synthesized by ...
Zichao Wang +7 more
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Molecules, 2017 A synthetic method that taps into the facile Lewis base (LB)→Lewis acid (LA) adduct forming reaction between the semiconducting polymeric LB and all carbon LA C60 for the construction of covalently linked donor-acceptor dyads and brush polymer of dyads ...
Yang Wang +3 more
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