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SUBMITTER: Biagi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4792148 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20160315
Polymer brushes are being increasingly used to tailor surface physicochemistry for diverse applications such as wetting, adhesion of biological objects, implantable devices and much more. Here we perform Dissipative Particle Dynamics simulations to study the behaviour of dense polymer brushes under flow in a slit-pore channel. We discover that the system displays flow inversion at the brush interface for several disconnected ranges of the imposed flow. We associate such phenomenon to collective ...[more]