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The long and the short of polymer grafting

Published:2019 Issue:1 Volume:10 Page:54-59
ISSN:1759-9954
Container-title:Polymer Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Polym. Chem.

Author:

Michalek Lukas¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Mundsinger Kai¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Barner-Kowollik Christopher¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Barner Leonie¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemistry

2. Physics and Mechanical Engineering

3. Institute for Future Environments

4. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

5. QLD 4000

Abstract

Polymer chains are grafted depending on their size onto solid interfaces, leading to a distortion of the surface grafted size distribution. We herein predict and quanitify this distortion effect, which has critical consequences for functional polymer interface design.

Funder

Australian Research Council

Queensland University of Technology

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Organic Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,Biochemistry,Bioengineering

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/PY/C8PY01470A

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