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SUBMITTER: Saha S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3193157 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saha Sampa S Bruening Merlin L ML Baker Gregory L GL
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20110718 8
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is commonly used to grow polymer brushes from Au surfaces, but the resulting film thicknesses are usually significantly less than with ATRP from SiO(2) substrates. On Au, growth of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blocks from poly(tert-butyl acrylate) brushes occurs more rapidly than growth of PMMA from initiator monolayers, suggesting that the disparity between growth rates from Au and SiO(2) stems from the Au surface. Radical quenching by electron tr ...[more]