Polymer brushes grafted from clay nanoparticles adsorbed on a planar substrate by free radical surface-initiated polymerization

Langmuir

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 916-923

  Fan, Xiaowu ^a   Xia, Chuanjun ^a   Fulghum, Timothy ^b   Park, Mi Kyoung ^b   Locklin, Jason ^a   Advincula, Rigoberto C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CLAY; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GLASS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON WAFERS; STABILITY; SURFACES;

CLAY NANOPARTICLES; FREE RADICAL SURFACE INITIATED POLYMERIZATION; INITIATOR DENSITY; INITIATOR STABILITY; PARTICLE DISPERSION; POLYMER BRUSHES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER; SUBSTRATE EFFECTS;

GRAFT COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0037417986     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la026039u     Document Type: Article

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