1st Edition
Polymer Brushes Substrates, Technologies, and Properties
Polymer Brushes: An Overview, Vikas Mittal
Grafting of Organic Brushes on the Surface of Clay Platelets, Vikas Mittal
Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Brushes, Lionel Bureau and Muriel Vayssade
Ferrocene-Functionalized Polymer Brushes: Synthesis and Applications, Xu Li Qun, Kang En-Tang, and Fu Guo Dong
Preparation and Characterization of Nonfouling Polymer Brushes on Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Film Surfaces, Hong Tan, Jiehua Li, and Qiang Fu
Formation of Polymer Brushes inside Cylindrical Pores, Alexandros G. Koutsioubas
Polymer Brushes through Adsorption: From Early Attempts to the Ultra-Dense and Reversible "Zipper Brush", Wiebe M. de Vos, J. Mieke Kleijn, and Martien A. Cohen Stuart
Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: Principles and Applications for the Manipulation of Polymer Brushes, Frédéric Kanoufi
Comparison of Surface-Confined ATRP and SET-LRP Syntheses of Polymer Brushes, Keisha B. Walters and Shijie Ding
Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Brushes on Polymer Particles’ Surfaces and Applications, Vikas Mittal
Well-Defined Concentrated Polymer Brushes of Hydrophilic Polymers: Suppression of Protein and Cell Adhesions, Chiaki Yoshikawa and Hisatoshi Kobayashi
Polymer Brushes by Surface-Initiated Iniferter-Mediated Polymerization, Santosh B. Rahane and S. Michael Kilbey II
Biography
Dr. Vikas Mittal is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. He has previously worked at BASF Polymer Research in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and the Sun Chemical Group Europe in London. Dr. Mittal’s research interests include organic-inorganic nanocomposites, novel filler surface modifications, thermal stability enhancements, and polymer latexes with functionalized surfaces.
The main theme of this book is the surface modification with polymer brushes. The book is addressed to experimentalists. It contains a detailed description of methods of preparation and properties of brushes formed by polymers of different chemical structures. This is the main strength of the book.
—Tatiana Birshtein, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences
