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Mechanical response of a surface of increasing hardness covered with a nonuniform polymer brush: a numerical
J S Hernández-Fragoso1,2, S J Alas1,2,3, A Gama Goicochea4
1Posgrado en Ciencias Naturales e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa Ciudad de México 05300 Mexico salas@correo.cua.uam.mx.
RSC Advances
|May 2, 2022
Abstract:
The compression force with indentation on a polymer brush with chains of unequal lengths is predicted with numerical simulations, as a function of increasing hardness of the grafting surface, finding that properties of the brush are distinguished from those of the surface and that its hardness propagates through the brush.
