TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wischerhoff, Erik
A1  - Glatzel, Stefan
A1  - Uhlig, Katja
A1  - Lankenau, Andreas
A1  - Lutz, Jean-Francois
A1  - Laschewsky, André
T1  - Tuning the thickness of polymer brushes grafted from nonlinearly growing multilayer assemblies
N2  - A new versatile method for tuning the thickness of surface-tethered polymer brushes is introduced. It is based on the combination of polyelectrolyte multilayer deposition and surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization. To control the thickness of the brushes, the nonlinear growth of certain polyelectrolyte multilayer systems is exploited. The method is demonstrated to work with different polyelectrolytes and different monomers. The relevance for applications is demonstrated by cell adhesion experiments oil grafted thermoresponsive polymer layers with varying thickness.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32004
UR  - http://pubs.acs.org/journal/langd5
SN  - 0743-7463
ER  -