ABSTRACT
In the vast literature that covers the subject of polymer brushes, one may find numerous studies concerning brush formation and properties on flat surfaces. Since the introduction of the concept, polymer brushes have been studied traditionally on flat macroscopic surfaces due to the applicability of well-established experimental techniques and also because of the relative simplicity of the theoretical description on a flat geometry. However, the properties of polymer brushes grown on curved interfaces (especially on the surface of micro-and nanoparticles) have also received interest because of early-suggested applications in the stabilization of colloid dispersions [1].
