Recent progress in surface-initiated polymerization enables the deliberate polymer
modification of nanoscopic surfaces with high levels of precision. This has given rise to the …

Conspectus Colloidal nanoparticles have unique attributes that can be used to synthesize
materials with exotic properties, but leveraging these properties requires fine control over …

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 offer a surface platform consisting of densely packed macromolecular
monolayers that can be used to generate and control nanostructures at surfaces based on …

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

New opportunities for complex and controllable self-organization of inorganic nanoparticles
(eg, quantum dots, plasmonic or magnetic nanoparticles) are provided when the stabilizing …

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

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 …

Surface-functionalization mediated through “grafting from” methods is of considerable
interest as means to tailor the chemical and physical properties of functional substrates in a …

Mixed polymer brush-grafted particles, in which two distinct polymers are randomly or
alternately immobilized by one end via a covalent bond on the surface of core particles with …