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Controlling Tack with Bicomponent Polymer Brushes
Author(s) -
Retsos H.,
Kiriy A.,
Senkovskyy V.,
Stamm M.,
Feldstein M. M.,
Creton C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200600315
Subject(s) - materials science , polystyrene , brush , adhesive , adhesion , polymer brush , polymer , surface modification , solvent , layer (electronics) , composite material , polymer chemistry , chemical engineering , polymer science , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , polymerization , chemistry , engineering
Taking advantage of the surface modification that a selective solvent can induce in a glassy polystyrene–poly(2‐vinylpyridine) binary brush layer, a methodology is demonstrated for reversibly tuning the tackiness of a hydrophilic, pressure‐sensitive adhesive against that surface. The significant and fully reversible alteration in adhesion has been observed even for brushes with fairly low poly(2‐vinylpyridine) content (see figure).