Polymer brush growth by oxygen-initiated RAFT polymerization on various substrates

Authors :: Kyung-sun Son
Min Ki Cho
Ji Hoon Lee
Woo Kyung Cho
Hyun Ji Seo
Source :: Polymer Chemistry. 12:7023-7030
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2021.
Abstract: We developed a user-friendly method for growing polymer brushes on various substrates in the presence of air by O2-SI-RAFT polymerization and mussel-inspired surface chemistry. In particular, PHEMA brushes grew to 856 nm on the titanium substrate.

Subjects :: Polymers and Plastics
Chemical engineering
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
chemistry.chemical_element
Bioengineering
Reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization
Polymer brush
Biochemistry
Oxygen

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