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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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Biosensors, 2022 Biofouling on surfaces, caused by the assimilation of proteins, peptides, lipids and microorganisms, leads to contamination, deterioration and failure of biomedical devices and causes implants rejection.
Jesna Ashraf +6 more
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Polymer brushes under high load. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Polymer coatings are frequently used to provide repulsive forces between surfaces in solution. After 25 years of design and study, a quantitative model to explain and predict repulsion under strong compression is still lacking.
Suzanne M Balko +6 more
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eXPRESS Polymer Letters, 2014 Polymer brushes with 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl methacrylate (TMPM) units, grafted on the cross-linked polystyrene (PS) microspheres, were synthesized via surface-initiated ARGET (activators regenerated by electron transfer) ATRP (atom transfer ...
S. J. Liu +5 more
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Condensed Matter Physics, 2020 We have explored a model for adsorption of water into slit-like nanochannels with two walls chemically modified by grafted polymer layers forming brushes. A version of density functional method is used as theoretical tools.
V.M. Trejos +3 more
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Localized and structured growth of polymer brushes using ink jet printing approach [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022 Inkjet printing (IJP) technique has been used for the deposition of silica nanoparticles with controlled position and shape onto flexible polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate. The printed silica areas have been chemically functionalized with a silane
Ali Azouaou Tarek +5 more
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Light‐Gated Control of Conformational Changes in Polymer Brushes
, 2022 Herein, a strategy to control conformational changes in grafted polymer brushes via photoinduced crosslinking of photoreactive groups embedded into the lateral architecture of a polymer brush is reported.
Andrew Nelson +22 more
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Aqueous Lubrication with Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Brushes
Tribology Online, 2014 Hydrophilic polymer brushes constitute a man-made approach to imitating nature’s lubrication mechanisms. A polymer that has been frequently used to explore such systems is poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG).
Nicholas D. Spencer
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Artificial cilia for soft and stable surface covalent immobilization of bone morphogenetic protein-2
Bioactive Materials, 2023 Preservation of growth factor sensitivity and bioactivity (e.g., bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2)) post-immobilization to tissue engineering scaffolds remains a great challenge.
Qi Gan +9 more
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Phase Behavior of Polydisperse Y-Shaped Polymer Brushes under Good Solvent Conditions. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Y-shaped polymer brushes represent a special class of binary mixed polymer brushes, in which a combination of different homopolymers leads to unique phase behavior.
Fridrich P, Posel Z.
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