The use of light to mediate controlled radical polymerization has emerged as a powerful
strategy for rational polymer synthesis and advanced materials fabrication. This review …

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 …

Recent decades have witnessed abundant research on surface modifications to hierarchical
polymer brushes for multiple biomedical applications. The rational design and spatial …

The era of poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) brushes as a universal panacea for preventing non‐
specific protein adsorption and providing lubrication to surfaces is coming to an end. In the …

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

Bacteria-responsive surfaces popularly exert their smart antibacterial activities by bacteria-
triggered delivery of antibacterial agents; however, the antibacterial agents should be …

In this review, we discuss the concept of bioinspired lubrication using novel polymeric
structures, which has led to producing a myriad of new systems with effective and …

Although polycationic surfaces have high antimicrobial efficacies, they suffer from high
toxicity to mammalian cells and severe surface accumulation of dead bacteria. For the first …

Surface-initiated Cu (0)-mediated controlled radical polymerization (Si-CuCRP) can be
successfully applied to fabricate poly [(oligoethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate] …

Bilayer polymer brushes presenting surface-bound poly (glycidyl methacrylate)(PGMA) films
and interfacial cyclic poly (2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)(PAOXA) brushes show excellent biopassivity …