Issue 33, 2006

Surface grafted polymer brushes as ideal building blocks for “smart” surfaces

Abstract

Polymer brushes are assemblies of macromolecules chemically tethered at one end to a substrate. They provide an alternative to self-assembled monolayers because of the intrinsically large size of the building blocks and the ensuing entropic contribution to the film morphology. In this article, an overview of a number of representative polymer brush systems will be presented and their potential application for surfaces with controlled wettability, smart surfaces and nanoactuators will be explored in some detail.

Graphical abstract: Surface grafted polymer brushes as ideal building blocks for “smart” surfaces

Article information

Article type
Invited Article
Submitted
05 May 2006
Accepted
03 Jul 2006
First published
21 Jul 2006

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006,8, 3815-3823

Surface grafted polymer brushes as ideal building blocks for “smart” surfaces

F. Zhou and W. T. S. Huck, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 3815 DOI: 10.1039/B606415A

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