Solvent-induced immiscibility of polymer brushes eliminates dissipation channels

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  De Beer, Sissi ^a   Kutnyanszky, Edit ^b   Schön, Peter M ^b   Vancso, G Julius ^b   Müser, Martin H ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); SOLVENT;

FRICTION; IMMISCIBILITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMER; SIMULATION; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELIMINATION REACTION; FRICTION; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BRUSH SYSTEM; MISCIBLE POLYMER BRUSH SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REDUCTION KINETICS;

EID: 84900841995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4781     Document Type: Article

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