• A polymer brush is the name given to a surface coating consisting of polymers tethered to a surface. The brush may be either in a solvated state, where...
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    polymers, comb polymers, polymer brushes, dendronized polymers, ladder polymers, and dendrimers. There exist also two-dimensional polymers (2DP) which are...
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    RAFT polymerization can be used to design polymers of complex architectures, such as linear block copolymers, comb-like, star, brush polymers, dendrimers...
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    S. T.; Witten, T. A.; Cates, M. E. (1988). "Theory of the grafted polymer brush". Macromolecules. 21 (8). American Chemical Society (ACS): 2610–2619...
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    than three, the macromolecule may be termed a ‘’brush macromolecule’’. In polymer chemistry, graft polymers are segmented copolymers with a linear backbone...
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    Dendronized polymers (or dendronised polymers) are linear polymers to every repeat unit of which dendrons are attached. Dendrons are regularly branched...
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    polymers, comb polymers, brush polymers, dendronized polymers, dendrimers and Ring polymers are possible. Complex architecture polymers can be synthesized...
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    Polystyrene sulfonate (category Organic polymers)
    (2006). "Polymerization of Styrene Sulfonate Ethyl Ester and Styrene Sulfonate Dodecyl Ester by ATRP: Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes". Macromolecular...
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    In polymer chemistry, a copolymer is a polymer derived from more than one species of monomer. The polymerization of monomers into copolymers is called...
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  • encountered in tethered polymers (Polymer brush) exhibiting a vertical phase separation, where F ( y ) {\displaystyle F(y)} stands for the polymer density profile...
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