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Tunable Wettability by Clicking Counterions Into Polyelectrolyte Brushes
Author(s) -
Azzaroni O.,
Brown A. A.,
Huck W. T. S.
Publication year - 2007
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.200601257
Subject(s) - wetting , materials science , polyelectrolyte , polymer , polymer brush , brush , nanotechnology , copolymer , counterion , supramolecular chemistry , polymer science , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , composite material , ion , organic chemistry , molecule , chemistry , polymerization , engineering
Polymer brushes have recently emerged as an extremely versatile way to modify surface properties in a robust and controlled way. The introduction of responsive polymers and block copolymers in polymer‐brush systems has also opened up new routes to ‘smart' surfaces with switchable surface properties. Here, the use of polyelectrolyte brushes as a supramolecular platform for the immobilization of a wide range of species, leading to a tunable wettability of substrates, is presented.