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A simple technique to grow polymer brushes using in situ surface ligation of an organometallic initiator
Krishna D Dronavajjala1, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Sundararajan Uppili
1Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|October 5, 2006
Abstract:
A simple approach is described here for the in-place synthesis of polymer brushes by surface-initiated polymerization. A cyano-terminated self-assembled monolayer on a gold surface was used to anchor a highly active cationic Pd organometallic initiator by ligand exchange. We grew ultrasmooth patterned poly(4-methoxystyrene) brushes with excellent thickness control at room temperature.

