Polymer brushes : substrates, technologies, and properties

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 discusses methods for grafting organic brushes from the surface of clay platelets and for the covalent grafting of PNIPAm brushes. It then describes ferrocene polymer brushes, nonfouling brushes on poly(ethylene terephthalate) film surfaces, brushes formed. Read more... Content: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Editor; Contributors; 1. Polymer Brushes: An Overview; 2. Grafting of Organic Brushes on the Surface of Clay Platelets; 3. Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of Poly (N-Isopropylacrylamide) Brushes; 4. Ferrocene-Functionalized Polymer Brushes: Synthesis and Applications; 5. Preparation and Characterization of Nonfouling Polymer Brushes on Poly (Ethylene Terephthalate) Film Surfaces; 6. Formation of Polymer Brushes Inside Cylindrical Pores; 7. Polymer Brushes through Adsorption: From Early Attempts to the Ultra-Dense and Reversible "Zipper Brush" 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 discusses methods for grafting organic brushes from the surface of clay platelets and for the covalent grafting of PNIPAm brushes. It then describes ferrocene polymer brushes, nonfouling brushes on poly(ethylene terephthalate) film surfaces, brushes formed