Surface forces between telechelic brushes revisited : the origin of a weak attraction

Telechelic polymers are useful for surface protection and stabilization of colloidal dispersions by the formation of polymer brushes. A number of theoretical investigations have been reported on a weak attraction between two telechelic brushes when they are at the classical contact, i.e., when the s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 22(2006), 6 vom: 14. März, Seite 2712-8
1. Verfasser: Cao, Dapeng (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wu, Jianzhong
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Telechelic polymers are useful for surface protection and stabilization of colloidal dispersions by the formation of polymer brushes. A number of theoretical investigations have been reported on a weak attraction between two telechelic brushes when they are at the classical contact, i.e., when the surface separation is approximately equal to the summation of the brush thicknesses. While recent experiments have confirmed the weak attraction between telechelic brushes, its origin remains elusive because of conflicting approximations used in the previous theoretical calculations. In this paper, we have investigated the telechelic polymer-mediated surface forces by using a polymer density functional theory (PDFT) that accounts for both the surface-adhesive energy and segment-level interactions specifically. Within a single theoretical framework, the PDFT is able to capture both the depletion-induced attraction in the presence of weakly adhesive polymers and the steric repulsion between compressed polymer brushes. In comparison of the solvation forces between telechelic brushes with those between brushes formed by surfactant-like polymers and with those between two asymmetric surfaces mediated by telechelic polymers, we conclude that the weak attraction between telechelic brushes is primarily caused by the bridging effect. Although both the surfactant-like and telechelic polymers exhibit a similar scaling behavior for the brush thickness, a significant difference has been observed in terms of the brush microstructures, in particular, the segment densities near the edges of the polymer brushes 
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