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Langmuir. 2005 Nov 08;21(23):10818-24. doi: 10.1021/la051566+.

Rapid polymer brush growth by TEMPO-mediated controlled free-radical polymerization from swollen plasma deposited poly(maleic anhydride) initiator surfaces.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids

D O H Teare, W C E Schofield, R P Garrod, J P S Badyal

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Science Laboratories, Durham University, England, UK.

PMID: 16262358 DOI: 10.1021/la051566+

Abstract

Pulsed plasma-chemical deposition of poly(maleic anhydride) is shown to be a substrate-independent method for functionalizing solid surfaces with initiator sites for nitroxide-mediated controlled free-radical graft polymerization. Swelling of the initiator film via aminolysis can lead to grafted polymer brushes that are 1 order of magnitude thicker than those obtained by existing methods on solid surfaces.

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