ABSTRACT

Polymer Brushes: Substrates, Technologies, and Properties covers various aspects of polymer brush technology, including synthesis, properties, performance, and applications. It presents both experimental details and theoretical insights to enable a better understanding of the brush system.After an overview of polymer brush systems, the book discuss

chapter 1|24 pages

Polymer Brushes: An Overview

ByV. Mittal

chapter 2|22 pages

Grafting of Organic Brushes on the Surface of Clay Platelets

ByV. Mittal

chapter 3|18 pages

Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Brushes

ByLionel Bureau, Muriel Vayssade

chapter 4|26 pages

Ferrocene-Functionalized Polymer Brushes: Synthesis and Applications

ByXu Li Qun, Kang En-Tang, Fu Guo Dong

chapter 6|18 pages

Formation of Polymer Brushes Inside Cylindrical Pores

ByAlexandros G. Koutsioubas

chapter 7|30 pages

Polymer Brushes through Adsorption: From Early Attempts to the Ultra-Dense and Reversible “Zipper Brush”

ByWiebe M. de Vos, J. Mieke Kleijn, and Martien A. Cohen Stuart

chapter 9|20 pages

Comparison of Surface-Confined ATRP and SET-LRP Syntheses of Polymer Brushes

ByKeisha B. Walters, Shijie Ding

chapter 12|41 pages

Polymer Brushes by Surface-Initiated Iniferter-Mediated Polymerization

BySantosh B. Rahane and S. Michael Kilbey II