Open AccessCover Image, Volume 54, Issue 15
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part a: polymer chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.768
H-Index - 152
eISSN - 1099-0518
pISSN - 0887-624X
DOI - 10.1002/pola.28169
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , polymer , photomask , polymer science , photopolymer , volume (thermodynamics) , grayscale , citation , nanotechnology , computer science , materials science , polymer chemistry , computer graphics (images) , image (mathematics) , world wide web , polymerization , physics , composite material , layer (electronics) , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , engineering , quantum mechanics , resist
Complex molecular architectures of polymer brushes, such as surface‐tethered branched polymers, are poorly studied due to synthetic challenges associated with their preparation. On page 2276 (DOI: 10.1002/pola.28128 ) Benjaporn Narupai et al. report a simple and versatile method for generating surface‐tethered branched polymer brushes using sequential light‐mediated controlled radical polymerizations. This method can be coupled with spatially controlled photopolymerization techniques to create gradient films via grayscale photomasks with the compositions and lengths of the backbone and grafted chains being independently controlled to create arbitrary three‐dimensional polymer brush nanostructures.