Evidence of lateral nanoscale heterogeneities in weak polyelectrolyte brushes

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8960-8963

  Witte, Kevin N ^a   Hur, Jaehyun ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Kim, Sangtae ^a   Won, You Yeon ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; GRAPHITE SUBSTRATES; HETEROGENEOUS REGIONS; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; NANO-SCALE; PDMAEMA; POLYMER BRUSHES; THERMODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES; WEAK POLYELECTROLYTES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; GRAPHITE; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BRUSHES;

EID: 64549156430     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801412u     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Sidorenko, A.; Minko, S.; Schenk-Meuser, K.; Duschner, H.; Stamm, M. Langmuir 1999, 15 (24), 8349-8355.
2. Israels, R.; Leermakers, F. A. M.; Fleer, G. J. Macromolecules 1994, 27 (11), 3087-3093.
3. Borukhov, I.; Andelman, D.; Orland, H. Eur. Phys. J. B 1998, 5 (4), 869-880.
4. Ruhe, J.; Ballauff, M.; Biesalski, M.; Dziezok, P.; Grohn, F.; Johannsmann, D.; Houbenov, N.; Hugenberg, N.; Konradi, R.; Minko, S.; Motornov, M.; Netz, R. R.; Schmidt, M.; Seidel, C.; Stamm, M.; Stephan, T.; Usov, D.; Zhang, H. N. Adv. Polym. Sci. 2004, 165, 79-150.
5. Gong, P.; Genzer, J.; Szleifer, I. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98 (1).
6. Chung, B.; Choi, M.; Ree, M.; Jung, J. C.; Zin, W. C.; Chang, T. H. Macromolecules 2006, 39 (2), 684-689.
7. Cox, J. K.; Yu, K.; Constantine, B.; Eisenberg, A.; Lennox, R. B. Langmuir 1999, 15 (22), 7714-7718.
8. Zhu, J. Y.; Eisenberg, A.; Lennox, R. B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113 (15), 5583-5588.
9. Dubreuil, F.; Guenoun, P. Eur. Phys. J. E 2001, 5 (1), 59-64.
10. Faure, M. C.; Bassereau, P.; Carignano, M. A.; Szleifer, I.; Gallot, Y.; Andelman, D. Eur. Phys. J. B 1998, 3 (3), 365-375.
11. Bijsterbosch, H. D.; Dehaan, V. O.; Degraaf, A. W.; Mellema, M.; Leermakers, F. A. M.; Stuart, M. A. C.; Vanwell, A. A. Langmuir 1995, 11 (11), 4467-4473.
12. Cao, B. H.; Kim, M. W. Faraday Discuss. 1994, 245-252.
13. Kaewsaiha, P.; Matsumoto, K.; Matsuoka, H. Langmuir 2004, 20 (16), 6754-6761.
14. Rehfeldt, F.; Steitz, R.; Armes, S. P.; Von Klitzing, R.; Gast, A. P.; Tanaka, M. J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110 (18), 9171-9176.
15. van de Wetering, P.; Zuidam, N. J.; van Steenbergen, M. J.; van der Houwen, O.; Underberg, W. J. M.; Hennink, W. E. Macromolecules 1998, 31 (23), 8063-8068.
16. Evans, D. F.; Wennerström, H. The Colloidal Domain: Where Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Technology Meet; VCH Publishers: New York, 1994.
17. Wu, S. Polymer Interface and Adhesion; Marcel Dekker: New York, 1982.
18. Brandrup, J.; Immergut, E. H. Polymer Handbook, 3rd ed.; Wiley: New York, 1989.
19. Fowkes, F. M.; Harkins, W. D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1940, 62, 3377-3386.
20. Roff, W. J. Handbook of Common Polymers: Fibres, Films, Plastics, and Rubbers; CRC Press: Cleveland, 1971.
21. Gavranovic, G. T.; Deutsch, J. M.; Fuller, G. G. Macromolecules 2005, 38 (15), 6672-6679.
22. Naito, K. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 1989, 131 (1), 218-225.
23. Hur, J.; Won, Y. Y. Soft Matter 2008, 4 (6), 1261-1269.
24. de Gennes, P. G. Macromolecules 1980, 13 (5), 1069-1075.
25. Aharoni, S. M. Macromolecules 1983, 16 (11), 1722-1728.
26. Witte, K. N.; Won, Y. Y. Macromolecules 2006, 39 (22), 7757-7768.