Preface ....................................................... vii
Editor ......................................................... ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
1 Polymer Brushes: An Overview ................................. 1
V. Mittal
2 Grafting of Organic Brushes on the Surface of Clay
Platelets ................................................... 25
V. Mittal
3 Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of
Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) Brushes ......................... 47
Lionel Bureau and Muriel Vayssade
4 Ferrocene-Functionalized Polymer Brushes: Synthesis and
Applications ................................................ 65
Xu Li Qun, Kang En-Tang, and Fu Guo Dong
5 Preparation and Characterization of Nonfouling Polymer
Brushes on Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Film Surfaces ....... 91
Hong Tan, Jiehua Li, and Qiang Fu
6 Formation of Polymer Brushes Inside Cylindrical Pores ...... 115
Alexandres G. Koutsioubas
7 Polymer Brushes through Adsorption: From Early Attempts
to the Ultra-Dense and Reversible "Zipper Brush" ........... 133
Wiebe M. de Vos, J. Mieke Kleijn, and Martien A. Cohen
Stuart
8 Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: Principles and
Applications for the Manipulation of Polymer Brushes ....... 163
Frederic Kanoufi
9 Comparison of Surface-Confined ATRP and SET-LRP Syntheses
of Polymer Brushes ......................................... 209
Keisha B. Walters and Shijie Ding
10 Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Brushes on Polymer Particles'
Surfaces and Applications .................................. 229
V. Mittal
11 Well-Defined Concentrated Polymer Brushes of Hydrophilic
Polymers: Suppression of Protein and Cell Adhesions ........ 253
Chiaki Yoshikawa and Hisatoshi Kobayashi
12 Polymer Brushes by Surface-Initiated Iniferter-Mediated
Polymerization ............................................. 277
Santosh B. Rahane and S. Michael Kilbey II
Index ......................................................... 313
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