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

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

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 …

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 …

Polymer brushes have been theoretically described, their behavior under diverse conditions
has been modeled, and their preparation via surface-initiated polymerizations (SIPs) has …

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

Materials scientists, polymer chemists, surface physicists and materials engineers will find
this book a complete and detailed treatise on the field of polymer brushes, their synthesis …

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

In recent years, research on cylindrical polymer brushes (or molecular bottlebrushes) has
received significant attention. In this article, we discuss various strategies for their synthesis …