Polymer Brushes

OVERVIEW
Polymer Brushes: On the Way to Tailor-made Surfaces
SYNTHESIS
Recent Advances in Polymer Brush Synthesis
Polymer Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Polymer Brushes by ATRP Initiated from Macroiniator Synthesized on Surface
Synthesis of Polypeptide Brushes
Bottle Brush Brushes: Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide from Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Surfaces
Preparation of Well-Defined Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures Using Living Cationic Surface-Initiated Polymerization from Silica Nanoparticles.
Photoinitiated Polymerization from Self-Assembled Monolayers.
Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Rearrangement of Block Copolymer Brushes
Surface-Grafted Hyperbranched Polymers
CHARACTERIZATION
The Analysis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes: from Flat surfaces to Nanoparticles.
Characterization of Polymer Brushes on Nanoparticle Surfaces
Spherical Polyelectrolytes
Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes - Complex Formation and Multilayer Built-up with Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes
Structure and Properties of High-Density Polymer Brushes
Behavior of surface-anchored poly(acrylic acid) brushes with grafting density gradients on solid surfaces
Kinetics of Polymer Brush Formation With and Without Segmental Adsorption
APPLICATIONS
Applications of Polymer Brushes and Other Surface-Attached Polymers
Polymer Brushes: Towards Applications
Polymerization, Nanopatterning, and Characterization of Surface Confined, Stimul-Responsive Polymer Brushes
Mixed Polymer Brushes, Switching of Surface Behavior and Chemical Patterning at the Nanoscale
Local Chain Organization Of Switchable Binary Polymer Brushes in Selective Solvents
Motion of Nano-objects Induced by a Switchable Polymer Carpet
Photochemical Strategies for the Preparation and Microstructuring of Densely Grafted Polymer Brushes on Planar Surfaces

Rigoberto C. Advincula is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Houston. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines in 1987 and his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Florida seven years later.

He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in 1995 and the following year a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University. In 2003, Dr. Advincula was one of the recipients of the Arthur K. Doolittle Award given by the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering division of the American Chemical Society. His current research interests are in the area of organic and polymer materials as applied to nanoscale building blocks and phenomena, with applications focusing on electro-optical properties, biofunctional systems, and surface modifiers.

William J. Brittain is currently Professor at the University of Akron, Department of Polymer Science. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1977 and his PhD in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in 1982.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University and 6 years in Central Research and Development at E. I. DuPont, he joined the Uni

Kenneth C. Caster is currently Senior Research Scientist within the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Materials Systems at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Stetson University in 1979 and his PhD in Chemistry from Duke University in 1983. He was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Florida from 1983 to 1985, thereafter he spent 18 years in industrial R&D, first at Union Carbide Corporation in new product development and catalysis research, followed by 9 years at Lord Corporation, as principle investigator of new materials research in the Lord Materials Division. In 1998, Dr.

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