The molecular mechanisms for aqueous boundary lubrication are very different from those in
the classic boundary lubrication, originating from the fluidity of the hydration shells …

Colloidal systems are important across a range of industries, such as the food,
pharmaceutical, agrochemical, cosmetics, polymer, paint and oil industries, and form the …

Fluids containing nanostructures, known as nanofluids, are increasingly found in a wide
array of applications due to their unique physical properties as compared with their base …

We probe, using the surface forces apparatus, the thermal response of poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) brushes of various grafting densities, grown from plasma …

We have used neutron reflectometry to investigate the behavior of a strong polyelectrolyte
brush on a sapphire substrate, grown by atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) from a …

The AFM colloidal probe technique was used to measure the interaction between
microsized silica spheres and annealed polyelectrolyte brushes made of poly (acrylic …

This paper presents measurements, using the surface force balance (SFB), of the normal
and shear forces in aqueous solutions between polyelectrolyte layers grown directly on mica …

US10457088B2 - Template for self assembly and method of making a self assembled
pattern - Google Patents US10457088B2 - Template for self assembly and method of …

Multiarm star copolymers with approximately 460 poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO) arms that have
a degree of polymerization N= 45 were synthesized via atom transfer radical polymerization …

Mica substrates were activated by a plasma method leading to OH-functionalized surfaces to
which an atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) radical initiator was covalently bound …