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 via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis,
Characterization, Properties, and Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN …

The synthesis of polymers with well-defined compositions, architectures, and functionalities
has long been of great interest in polymer chemistry. Typically, living polymerization …

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) is an effective technique for the design and
preparation of multifunctional, nanostructured materials for a variety of applications in …

3689 Chem. Rev. 2001, 101, 3689− 3745 10.1021/cr9901182 CCC: $36.00© 2001
American Chemical Society Published on Web 12/12/2001 laboratory-scale processes for …

This review focuses on the attachment of polymer brushes to polymeric biomaterial
substrates by chemical surface modification methods for biomedical applications. In the first …

The response of host organism in macroscopic, cellular and protein levels to biomaterials is,
in most cases, closely associated with the materials' surface properties. In tissue …

The preparation of hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposites comprised of well-defined
polymers was reviewed. In particular, synthetic methods using controlled/“living” radical …

Surface modifications by polymers are becoming increasingly important for various
applications ranging from biotechnology to advanced microelectronics. Recent successful …

Monodisperse silica particles (SiPs) of diameter between 100 and 1500 nm were surface-
modified in a mixture of ethanol/water/ammonia with a newly designed triethoxysilane …