• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.275.5305.1458
Corpus ID: 136525970

Controlling Polymer-Surface Interactions with Random Copolymer Brushes

@article{Mansky1997ControllingPI,
  title={Controlling Polymer-Surface Interactions with Random Copolymer Brushes},
  author={P. Mansky and Y. Liu and E. Huang and T. Russell and C. Hawker},
  journal={Science},
  year={1997},
  volume={275},
  pages={1458 - 1460}
}

P. Mansky, Y. Liu, +2 authors C. Hawker

Published 1997

Materials Science

Science

A simple technique for precisely controlling the interfacial energies and wetting behavior of polymers in contact with solid surfaces is described. End-functionalized statistical random copolymers of styrene and methylmethacrylate were synthesized, with the styrene fraction f varying from 0 to 1, and were end-grafted onto silicon substrates to create random copolymer brushes about 5 nanometers thick. For f < 0.7, polystyrene (PS) films (20 nanometers thick) rapidly dewet from the brushes when… CONTINUE READING

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