Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a third update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a third update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (RDRP) achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a …

Toward Enhancing the Surface Adhesion of Fluoropolymer-Based Coating Materials

MRB Domalanta, EB Caldona - Polymer Reviews, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Fluoropolymers have gained significant recognition mainly for their inertness, making them
highly desirable for applications requiring corrosion protection and hydrophobicity …

Electrochemically-controlled grafting of hydrophilic brushes from conducting polymer substrates

LT Strover, J Malmström, LA Stubbing, MA Brimble… - Electrochimica …, 2016 - Elsevier
Electrochemically-mediated ATRP (eATRP) has emerged in recent years as an alternative
controlled radical polymerisation technique that utilises low concentrations of copper-based …

Graft copolymers with conducting polymer backbones: a versatile route to functional materials

LT Strover, J Malmström… - The Chemical Record, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Graft copolymers with a conducting polymer backbone are a promising class of materials for
diverse applications including, but not limited to, organic electronics, stimuli‐responsive …

Lignin-methyl methacrylate polymer as a hydrophobic multifunctional material

N Alipoormazandarani, P Fatehi - Industrial Crops and Products, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, the modification of lignin (KL) with methyl methacrylate (MMA) is presented via
free-radical polymerization in the presence of potassium persulfate as an initiator. One-step …

“Click” polymerization on a self-assembled monolayer: a convenient approach to functionalize various surfaces with polytriazoles

D Samanta, P Murugan, SJ Ananthakrishnan… - Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
“Click” polymerization reaction has been performed on the functional self-assembled
monolayer to incorporate polytriazoles. Ellipsometric and atomic force microscopic studies …

A new precursor for conducting polymer-based brush interfaces with electroactivity in aqueous solution

LT Strover, J Malmström, O Laita, J Reynisson… - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
We present the synthesis of a novel conducting polymer (CP) incorporating both pyrrole and
thiophene units in its monomer, which is also substituted with an initiator for grafting of …

Polymer Brushes Synthesized by the “Grafting-through” Approach: Characterization and Scaling Analysis

MM Avdeev, AV Shibaev, KI Maslakov, SV Dvoryak… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, a combined morphological and scaling analysis of brushes synthesized by the
“grafting-through” method was performed, and the possibility of regulation of the thickness …

Synthesis and characterization of silica–polyvinyl imidazole core–shell nanoparticles via combination of RAFT polymerization and grafting‐to method

JE Gargari, A Shakeri, HS Kalal… - Polymers for …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The silica–polyvinyl imidazole core–shell nanoparticles (silica/PVI NPs) with controlled shell
thickness and narrow distribution size were fabricated via “grafting‐to” method. First, O‐ethyl …