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Expanding the Polymer Mechanochemistry Toolbox through Surface-Initiated Polymerization

Surface-initiated polymerizations represent a versatile toolbox to generate densely grafted assemblies of chain end-tethered polymers. At sufficiently short interchain distances, surface-grafted polymers are forced into an extended chain conformation, whic ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Shape-Persistent, Thermoresponsive Polypeptide Brushes Prepared by Vapor Deposition Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Polymerization of alpha-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides

Harm-Anton Klok, Solenne Desseaux

Surface-grafting thermoresponsive polymers allows the preparation of thin polymer brush coatings with surface properties that can be manipulated by variation of temperature. In most instances, thermoresponsive polymer brushes are produced using polymers th ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization enhanced DNA biosensing

Harm-Anton Klok, Tugba Bilgiç Tune

The surface chemistry at the DNA recognition and binding interface plays an important role in determining the performance of DNA microarrays and DNA biosensors. Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-CRP) reactions represent a powerful too ...

2015

Oligonucleotide Immobilization and Hybridization on Aldehyde-Functionalized Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Brushes

Harm-Anton Klok, Tugba Bilgiç Tune

DNA biosensing requires high oligonudeotide binding capacity interface chemistries that can be tuned to maximize probe presentation as well as hybridization efficiency. This contribution investigates the feasibility of aldehyde-functionalized poly(2-hydrox ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Polymer Brush Gradients Grafted from Plasma-Polymerized Surfaces

Harm-Anton Klok, Tugba Bilgiç Tune

A new method for generating a surface density gradient of polymer chains is presented. A substrate-independent polymer deposition technique was used to coat materials with a chemical gradient based on plasma copolymerization of 1,7-octadiene and allylamine ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Maleimide-Functionalized Thiol Reactive Copolymer Brushes: Fabrication and Post-Polymerization Modification

Harm-Anton Klok, Tugba Bilgiç Tune

Polymer brushes that present side chain functional reactive groups are attractive platforms for the development of functional surface coatings. From the wide spectrum of possible postpolymerization modification reactions, thiol-based conjugation chemistrie ...

American Chemical Society2014

Postpolymerization Modification of Poly(glycidyl methacrylate) Brushes: An XPS Depth-Profiling Study

Harm-Anton Klok, Vincent Laporte, Raphaël Barbey

Surface-initiated polymerization represents a versatile strategy to modify a diverse range of materials with thin, functional polymer coatings. While in many cases the desired functional groups can be directly incorporated via (co)polymerization of the app ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Synthesis and post-polymerization modification of poly(pentafluorophenyl methacrylate) brushes

Harm-Anton Klok

Post-polymerization modification is a powerful strategy to endow polymers with functional groups that cannot be incorporated via direct polymerization. This manuscript explores the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) of p ...

2012

Interactive Surfaces Based on Polymer Brushes

Dusko Paripovic

While the bulk structure of a material determines its mechanical properties, its surface plays a key role when interactions with the environment are important. Nowadays materials in bio- and nanotechnology are required to possess very complex functionaliti ...

EPFL2011

Synthesis of Responsive Polymer Brushes for Sensing Applications

Nicolas Bertrand Schüwer

During the past decades the field of sensors has been subject to much attention due to an increased demand for (bio)sensors and environmental monitoring. The efforts have been concentrated to create sensors which are reliable, highly sensitive and selectiv ...

EPFL2011

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