Doubly-dendronized polymers were synthesized by grafting polybenzyl ether dendrons onto a poly(hydroxy) styrene polymer with polyaliphatic esters.

Polymer chains are irreversibly grafted to a surface in a good solvent and the solvent quality is then reduced dramatically. The chains then collapse. If the grafting density is very high then the collapsed layer should be fairly uniform. However, at lower grafting densities the chains are predicted to form surface "micelles". These micelles minimize the exposed surface area of the collapsed gl...

The interaction forces between nanoscale colloidal particles coated with end-grafted Lennard-Jones homopolymers are calculated using off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations in the NVT ensemble. The focus of this work is on grafted polymers that are of approximately the same size as the nanoparticle, a regime intermediate to the star-polymer and Derjaguin limits. The effects of chain length (N), nan...

Grafting-to polymer coatings are typically easy to apply, but the thickness of such is limited a few nanometers, which may hamper applications. This paper presents grafting-to coating approach that yields brushes up an unprecedented 19 nm. To this aim, easy-to-apply poly(dopamine) (PDA) primer layer optimized. PDA easy-to-apply, highly complex and chemically not well understood layer. In study,...

Recent experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that relative to singly tethered chains, the presence of polymer loops at interfaces significantly improves interfacial properties such as adhesion, friction, and wettability. In the present study, a simple system was studied to examine the formation of polymeric loops on a solid surface, where the grafting of carboxylic acid termina...

The development of well-controlled synthetic schemes for growing polymer brushes directly from surfaces has recently enabled very high polymer grafting densities to be explored. Here, we report on the structure of polystyrene brushes as a function of molecular weight. The brushes were prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) at a high grafting density of 0.44 chains/nm. The dry f...

For the development of polymer carpets as active devices for micro- and nanotechnology, a control of the polymer carpet morphology and especially control of the stimulus responsive polymer brush is needed. Here, we report on the first example for the fabrication of patterned polymer carpets. On a two-dimensional framework of fully crosslinked and chemically patterned nanosheets, polymer brushes...

This study demonstrates that the thermally induced collapse of end-grafted poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of 32 degrees C depends on the chain grafting density and molecular weight. The polymer was grafted from the surface of a self-assembled monolayer containing the initiator (BrC(CH3)2COO(CH2)11S)2, using surface-initiated atom transf...

Bottlebrush polymers are highly branched macromolecules with potential applications in antifouling coatings, rheological modifiers, and drug delivery systems. However, the solution conformation of bottlebrush polymers has been studied in only a limited set of materials made primarily by grafting-from polymerization. Here we present small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements on a series ...