Polymer brushes :  substrates, technologies, and properties / 
edited by Vikas Mittal. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) 
<br/><br/>1. Polymer brushes : an overview / V. Mittal -- 2. Grafting of organic brushes on the surface of clay platelets / V. Mittal -- 3. Collapse, compression, and adhesion of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes / Lionel Bureau and Muriel Vayssade -- 4. Ferrocene-functionalized polymer brushes : synthesis and applications / Xu Li Qun, Kang En-Tang, and Fu Guo Dong -- 5. Preparation and characterization of nonfouling polymer brushes on poly(ethylene terephthalate) film surfaces / Hong Tan, Jiehua Li, and Qiang Fu -- 6. Formation of polymer brushes inside cylindrical pores / Alexandros G. Koutsioubas -- 7. 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 -- 8. Scanning electrochemical microscopy : principles and applications for the manipulation of polymer brushes / Frederic Kanoufi -- 9. Comparison of surface-confined ATRP and SET-LRP syntheses of polymer brushes / Keisha B. Walters and Shijie Ding -- 10. Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes on polymer particles' surfaces and applications / V. Mittal -- 11. Well-defined concentrated polymer brushes of hydrophilic polymers : suppression of protein and cell adhesions / Chiaki Yoshikawa and Hisatoshi Kobayashi -- 12. Polymer brushes by surface-initiated iniferter-mediated polymerization / Santosh B. Rahane and S. Michael Kilbey II. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429107078 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1201/b11824   doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Polymers--Mechanical properties.<br/>Paintbrushes.<br/>Polymers--Surfaces.<br/>Finishes and finishing--Equipment and supplies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TT305.3  / .P65 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>667.60284  / P783