Spontaneously Segregated Polymer Brush Structure

DOI

This study intends to elucidate how molecular hairy or brush-like structures form on different flat surfaces. When molecule chains form a densely packed assembly on a surface they are called 'brushes' or 'polymer brushes'. These types of structures can afford surface properties such as low surface friction or the ability to prevent bacteria from sticking to the surface. The polymer brushes we want to study form by segregating out from the underlying bulk material into water. Bulk material such as rubber silicone or polyurethane act as a resevoir from where the polymer brushes can segregate. This process happens spontaneously in the right solvent conditions and high enough content of polymer brush chains filled into the silicone. We would like to further understand the segregation process for e.g. industrial applications such as biomedical surface coatings or non-fouling ship hull paints.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86388396
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86388396
Provenance
Creator Dr Troels Ron; Professor Seunghwan Lee; Dr Hanna Wacklin-Knecht; Dr Mario Campana
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-03T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-08T09:03:01Z