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Invited Article
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 3815 - 3823, DOI: 10.1039/b606415a
Surface grafted polymer brushes as ideal building blocks for
smart
surfacesFeng Zhou and Wilhelm T. S. Huck
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.
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