Polymer science is rapidly advancing towards the precise construction of synthetic
macromolecules of formidable complexity. Beyond the impressive advances in control over …

With the development of controlled polymerisation, almost all polymerisation strategies have
been successfully transplanted to surface-initiated polymerisation. The resulting polymer …

Conspectus Polymer brushes are special macromolecular structures with polymer chains
densely tethered to another polymer chain (one-dimensional, 1D) or the surface of a planar …

Precise synthesis of polymer brushes to modify the surface of nanoparticles and
nanodevices for targeted applications has been one of the major focuses in the community …

Brush-like macromolecules are unique polymer molecules whose conformation and
physical properties are controlled by steric repulsion of densely grafted side chains …

A significant scientific and engineering challenge of recent years has been the fabrication of
patterned polymeric and biomacromolecular brush nanostructures on surfaces. These …

The great success of controlled radical polymerizations has encouraged researchers to
develop more facile and robust approaches for surface‐initiated polymerizations (SIPs) to …

Bottom‐up surface processing with well‐defined polymeric structures becomes increasingly
important in many current technologies. Polymer brushes, that is, assemblies of …

Polymer brushes are thin polymer films in which the individual polymer chains are tethered
by one chain end to a solid interface. The bulk and solution properties of these highly …

This Viewpoint highlights the ability of molecular bottlebrushes to serve as highly tunable
building blocks for creating nanostructured materials via molecular templating, solution …