1. Edition - July 2004
292.- Euro
2004. XVIII, 483 Pages, Hardcover
202 Fig., 6 Tab. 
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-31033-9
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31033-3 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim








Short description
Materials scientists, polymer chemists, surface physicists and materials engineers will find this book a complete and detailed treatise on the field of polymer brushes. It offers both introductory material on principles, synthetic pathways and different surface materials as well as specialized chapters. Large-scale and miniature applications of polymer brushes, e.g., functional or protective coatings, composite materials, surface engineered particles, metal-organic interfaces, biological applications, micro-patterning, colloids, nanoparticles, functional devices, and many more are presented.

From the contents
OVERVIEW
Polymer Brushes: On the Way to Tailor-made Surfaces
SYNTHESIS
Recent Advances in Polymer Brush Synthesis
Polymer Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Polymer Brushes by ATRP Initiated from Macroiniator Synthesized on Surface
Synthesis of Polypeptide Brushes
Bottle Brush Brushes: Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide from Poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Surfaces
Preparation of Well-Defined Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures Using Living Cationic Surface-Initiated Polymerization from Silica Nanoparticles.
Photoinitiated Polymerization from Self-Assembled Monolayers.
Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Rearrangement of Block Copolymer Brushes
Surface-Grafted Hyperbranched Polymers
CHARACTERIZATION
The Analysis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes: from Flat surfaces to Nanoparticles.
Characterization of Polymer Brushes on Nanoparticle Surfaces
Spherical Polyelectrolytes
Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes - Complex Formation and Multilayer Built-up with Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes
Structure and Properties of High-Density Polymer Brushes
Behavior of surface-anchored poly(acrylic acid) brushes with grafting density gradients on solid surfaces
Kinetics of Polymer Brush Formation With and Without Segmental Adsorption
APPLICATIONS
Applications of Polymer Brushes and Other Surface-Attached Polymers
Polymer Brushes: Towards Applications
Polymerization, Nanopatterning, and Characterization of Surface Confined, Stimul-Responsive Polymer Brushes
Mixed Polymer Brushes, Switching of Surface Behavior and Chemical Patterning at the Nanoscale
Local Chain Organization Of Switchable Binary Polymer Brushes in Selective Solvents
Motion of Nano-objects Induced by a Switchable Polymer Carpet
Photochemical Strategies for the Preparation and Microstructuring of Densely Grafted Polymer Brushes on Planar Surfaces