Antifouling surfaces based on polymer brushes

Antifouling Surfaces and Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 55-81

  Ye, Qian ^a   Zhou, Feng ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); PROTEINS;

AMPHIPHILIC CO-POLYMERS; ANTIFOULING SURFACES; BACTERICIDAL POLYMERS; COVALENT IMMOBILIZATION; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; NONFOULING SURFACES; POLYMER COMPOSITION; ZWITTERIONIC POLYMERS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84942785371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45204-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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