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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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Friction between Ring Polymer Brushes [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2015 Friction between ring-polymer brushes at melt densities sliding past each other are studied using extensive course-grained molecular dynamics simulations and scaling arguments, and the results are compared to the friction between linear-polymer brushes ...
Erbas, A., Paturej, J.
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Strongly Charged Polymer Brushes [PDF]
Europhysics Letters (EPL), 2005 Charged polymer brushes are layers of surface-tethered chains. Experimental systems are frequently strongly charged. Here we calculate phase diagrams for such brushes in terms of salt concentration n_s, grafting density and polymer backbone charge ...
O'Shaughnessy, Ben, Yang, Qingbo
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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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Supramolecular Polymer Brushes
ACS Polymers Au, 2023 Polymer brushes are thin polymer films that consist of densely grafted, chain-end tethered polymers. These thin polymer films can be produced either by anchoring presynthesized chain-end functional polymers to the surface of interest ("grafting to"), or by using appropriately modified surfaces to facilitate growth of polymer chains from the substrate ("
Friederike K. Metze, Harm-Anton Klok
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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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