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Formation of polyacrylate brushes on silica surfaces
Author(s) -
Parvole J,
Billon L,
Montfort J P
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/pi.1045
Subject(s) - polymer , dispersity , monolayer , grafting , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , polymer chemistry , materials science , chemical engineering , polymerization , radical polymerization , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , radical initiator , covalent bond , chemistry , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , composite material , engineering
We report the formation of polyacrylate (molten state polymers: T g < room temperature) monolayers attached onto silica surfaces using covalently bonded initiators for radical‐chain polymerisation. In a first reaction step, the initiator is self‐assembled on the surface. In a subsequent reaction, the initiator is activated and the polymer formed in situ at the surface of the substrate with high grafting density (‘grafting from’ procedure). Moreover, the use of a living free radical process permits the molecular weight and polydispersity of the polymer chains to be controlled, and thus the polymer monolayer thickness also. We have also made a preliminary qualitative characterisation by X‐ray spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transformed infrared (FTIR) measurements. © 2002 Society of Chemical Industry
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