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 …

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 …

Polymer brushes are thin polymer films that consist of densely grafted, chain-end tethered
polymers. These thin polymer films can be produced either by anchoring presynthesized …

Surface grafting of polymer brushes drastically modifies surface properties, including
wettability, compatibility, responsiveness, etc. A broad variety of functionalities can be …

Non-vinyl-based 'grafted from'polymer brushes have generated much interest and growth in
the past decade due to the potential for stiffer backbones, long-range order, and new …

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 …

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

This critical review summarizes recent developments in the fabrication of patterned polymer
brushes. As top-down lithography reaches the length scale of a single macromolecule, the …

In recent years, the synthesis of polymer brushes through surface-initiated polymerization
reactions has received significant attention. In this overview, several different synthetic …

Gradient polymer brushes provide a spatial gradient change in molecular characteristics of
the brush, and such a change can be utilized to study structure–property relationships in a …