Transition from mushroom to brush during formation of a tethered layer
Tethering of monodisperse, chain-end-functionalized polymer from dilute solution to a solid surface shows three regimes of kinetics. This paper presents support for the hypothesis that the experimentally observed third regime is indeed the transition from mushroom to brush and that it occurs in a sp...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 20(2004), 14 vom: 06. Juli, Seite 5770-5 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
| Zusammenfassung: | Tethering of monodisperse, chain-end-functionalized polymer from dilute solution to a solid surface shows three regimes of kinetics. This paper presents support for the hypothesis that the experimentally observed third regime is indeed the transition from mushroom to brush and that it occurs in a spatially nonuniform manner. Both time-step snapshots generated by a Monte Carlo simulation of the tethering process and atomic force microscopy images of actual surfaces during the process show that the third regime is characterized by nonuniform surface texture, while the surface texture is uniform prior to and after the third regime |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 20.03.2007 Date Revised 26.10.2019 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |