The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

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 …

Carbon nanomembranes (CNMs) are synthetic 2D carbon sheets with tailored physical or
chemical properties. These depend on the structure, molecular composition, and …

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

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 this review, we describe the latest advances in synthesis, characterization, and
applications of polymer brushes. Synthetic advances towards well-defined polymer brushes …

A critical bottleneck for the widespread use of single layer graphene is the absence of a
facile method of chemical modification which does not diminish the outstanding properties of …

Mixed polymer brushes (MPBs) are composed of two or more disparate polymers covalently
tethered to a substrate. The resulting phase segregated morphologies have been …

In this topical review we describe the fabrication, characterization and applications of 1nm
thick, mechanically stable carbon nanomembranes (CNMs). They represent a new type of …

Advances in controlled radical polymerization over the past two decades have transformed
the ability to produce molecularly well-defined, chain-end tethered polymer brush films. The …