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Supramolecular Polymer Brushes

Metze, Friederike K.  
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Klok, Harm -Anton  
February 8, 2023
Acs Polymers Au

Polymer brushes are thin polymer films that consist of densely grafted, chain-end tethered polymers. These thin polymer films can be produced either by anchoring presynthesized chain-end functional polymers to the surface of interest ("grafting to"), or by using appropriately modified surfaces to facilitate growth of polymer chains from the substrate ("grafting from"). The vast majority of polymer brushes that have been prepared and studied so far involved chain-end tethered polymer assemblies that are anchored to the surface via covalent bonds. In contrast, the use of noncovalent interactions to prepare chain-end tethered polymer thin films is much less explored. Anchoring or growing polymer chains using noncovalent interactions results in supramolecular polymer brushes. Supramolecular polymer brushes may possess unique chain dynamics as opposed to their covalently tethered counterparts, which could provide avenues to, for example, renewable or (self-)healable surface coatings. This Perspective article provides an overview of the various approaches that have been used so far to prepare supramolecular polymer brushes. After presenting an overview of the various approaches that have been used to prepare supramolecular brushes via the "grafting to" strategy, examples will be presented of strategies that have been successfully applied to produce supramolecular polymer brushes via "grafting from" methods.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acspolymersau.2c00067
Web of Science ID

WOS:000964924300001

Author(s)
Metze, Friederike K.  
Klok, Harm -Anton  
Date Issued

2023-02-08

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Acs Polymers Au
Subjects

Polymer Science

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Polymer Science

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polymer brushes

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supramolecular chemistry

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host-guest complexes

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surface-initiated polymerization

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grafting to

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grafting from

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transfer radical polymerization

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block-copolymers

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diblock copolymers

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surface polymerization

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adsorption-kinetics

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ambient-temperature

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graphene oxide

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protic media

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raft process

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silica sols

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