Polymeric Thin Films: Stratified Polymer Grafts: Synthesis and Characterization of Layered ‘Brush’ and ‘Gel’ Structures (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1/2014)
Source abstract
Abstract
Colloidal-probe atomic force microscopy is used by E. M. Benetti, N. D. Spencer, and co-workers in article 1300007 to investigate the mechanical and tribological properties of brush-gel systems under a good solvent (for the brush). While combined nanoindentation and adhesion measurements show clear indications of the brush-gel architecture, it is tribological measurements that confirm the layered structure: at small sliding amplitudes, the probe remains stationary on the gel and the brush stretches. Only once the restoring force of the brush exceeds the static friction on the gel does the probe begin to slide.
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OpenAlex topics: Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence · Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies · biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
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Affiliations
Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology Department of Materials ETH Zurich Wolfgang‐Pauli‐Strasse 10 HCI H 523, 8093 Zurich Switzerland
Department of Materials Science and Technology of Polymers MESA^{+} Institute for Nanotechnology University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands
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