Polymer-brush lubrication: a review of recent theoretical advances

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Mixed Brushes: A Computer Simulation Study

(2015) Fabien Léonforte et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Binary and Bidisperse Polymer Brushes: Coexisting Surface States

(2015) Dirk Romeis et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Dense brushes of stiff polymers or filaments in fluid flow

(2015) F. Römer et al.   EPL

Excluded volume effects in compressed polymer brushes: A density functional theory

(2015) Cangyi Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Polymer Brushes under Shear: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Compared to Experiments

(2015) Manjesh K. Singh et al.   LANGMUIR

Translocation of Molecules with Different Architectures through a Brush-Covered Microchannel

(2015) Irina V. Neratova et al.   MACROMOLECULES

The Weak Interaction of Surfactants with Polymer Brushes and Its Impact on Lubricating Behavior

(2015) Ran Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Brushes of Dendritically Branched Polyelectrolytes

(2015) O. V. Borisov et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Is Osmotic Pressure Relevant in the Mechanical Confinement of a Polymer Brush?

(2015) Stephen B. Abbott et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Control of nanoparticle formation using the constrained dewetting of polymer brushes

(2015) Thomas Lee et al.   Nanoscale

Brushes of semiflexible polymers in equilibrium and under flow in a super-hydrophobic regime

(2015) K. Speyer et al.   Soft Matter

Interlayer structure and self-healing in suspensions of brush-stabilized nanoplatelets with smectic order

(2015) K. L. White et al.   Soft Matter

Friction between ring polymer brushes

(2015) Aykut Erbaş et al.   Soft Matter

Aqueous lubrication by fractionated salivary proteins: Synergistic interaction of mucin polymer brush with low molecular weight macromolecules

(2015) Gleb E. Yakubov et al.   TRIBOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

A Robust Lubrication System Using an Ionic Liquid Polymer Brush

(2015) Hiroyuki Arafune et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Red blood cell dynamics in polymer brush-coated microcapillaries: A model of endothelial glycocalyx in vitro

(2014) Luca Lanotte et al.   Biomicrofluidics

Structure and Response to Flow of the Glycocalyx Layer

(2014) Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Excluded volume effects in polymer brushes at moderate chain stretching

(2014) Dirk Romeis et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Doubly self-consistent field theory of grafted polymers under simple shear in steady state

(2014) Tongchuan Suo et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Mixed brush of chemically and physically adsorbed polymers under shear: Inverse transport of the physisorbed species

(2014) C. Pastorino et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Switchable Friction Using Contacts of Stimulus-Responsive and Nonresponding Swollen Polymer Brushes

(2014) Sissi de Beer   LANGMUIR

Friction in (Im-) Miscible Polymer Brush Systems and the Role of Transverse Polymer Tilting

(2014) Sissi de Beer et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Dense, Highly Hydrated Polymer Brushes via Modified Atom-Transfer-Radical-Polymerization: Structure, Surface Interactions, and Frictional Dissipation

(2014) Odeya Tairy et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Lubrication by Polyelectrolyte Brushes

(2014) Ekaterina B. Zhulina et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Nanoparticle Organization in Sandwiched Polymer Brushes

(2014) Tine Curk et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sharp and Fast: Sensors and Switches Based on Polymer Brushes with Adsorption-Active Minority Chains

(2014) Leonid I. Klushin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unconventional ordering behavior of semi-flexible polymers in dense brushes under compression

(2014) Andrey Milchev et al.   Soft Matter

Frictional properties of a polycationic brush

(2014) Maryam Raftari et al.   Soft Matter

Collapse from the top: brushes of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in co-nonsolvent mixtures

(2014) Qi Chen et al.   Soft Matter

Solvent-induced immiscibility of polymer brushes eliminates dissipation channels

(2014) Sissi de Beer et al.   Nature Communications

Surface Modification of Diamond-Like Carbon Film with Polymer Brushes Using a Bio-Inspired Catechol Anchor for Excellent Biological Lubrication

(2014) Qiangbing Wei et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Conformational switching of modified guest chains in polymer brushes

(2013) D. Romeis et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Compression of High Grafting Density Opposing Polymer Brushes Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Explicit Solvent

(2013) Ian G. Elliott et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Using Thiol–Gold Bond Formation To Bridge Surfaces with a Polymer Brush: SFA Experiments and MD Simulations

(2013) Suzanne M. Balko et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polymer Brushes under High Load

(2013) Suzanne M. Balko et al.   PLoS One

The kinetic friction coefficient of neutral and charged polymer brushes

(2013) Florent Goujon et al.   Soft Matter

Alternative dissipation mechanisms and the effect of the solvent in friction between polymer brushes on rough surfaces

(2013) Sissi de Beer et al.   Soft Matter

Normal and shear interactions between high grafting density polymer brushes grown by atom transfer radical polymerization

(2013) Wei-Po Liao et al.   Soft Matter

Nanotribology of biopolymer brushes in aqueous solution using dissipative particle dynamics simulations: an application to PEG covered liposomes in a theta solvent

(2013) A. Gama Goicochea et al.   Soft Matter

Scaling Theory for Compressed Polymer-Brush Bilayers

(2013) T. Kreer et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Polymer brushes on flat and curved surfaces: How computer simulations can help to test theories and to interpret experiments

(2012) K. Binder et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Explicit Solvent Simulations of Friction between Brush Layers of Charged and Neutral Bottle-Brush Macromolecules

(2012) Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Steric Forces of Tethered Polymer Chains as a Function of Grafting Density: Studies with a Single Diblock Molecular Weight

(2012) Wei-Po Liao et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Inclusion Free Energy of Nanoparticles in Polymer Brushes

(2012) Holger Merlitz et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Comparison of the kinetic friction of planar neutral and polyelectrolyte polymer brushes using molecular dynamics simulations

(2012) Yangpeng Ou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Morphological control of grafted polymer films via attraction to small nanoparticle inclusions

(2012) Michael G. Opferman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Electric-Field-Induced Friction Reduction and Control

(2012) Carlos Drummond   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Polymer-Brush Lubrication in Oil: Sliding Beyond the Stribeck Curve

(2012) Robert M. Bielecki et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Smart polymer brushes and their emerging applications

(2012) Shunjin Peng et al.   RSC Advances

Strongly Compressed Polyelectrolyte Brushes under Shear

(2012) L. Spirin et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Compression of polyelectrolyte brushes in a salt-free theta solvent

(2011) M. W. Matsen   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

Starlike Polymer Brushes

(2011) Holger Merlitz et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Debye Approximation and Mean-Field Theory

(2011) Long Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Response to Shear Inversion of Polymer Brushes with Embedded Colloids

(2011) L. Spirin et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Lubrication Mechanism of Concentrated Polymer Brushes in Solvents: Effect of Solvent Quality and Thereby Swelling State

(2011) Akihiro Nomura et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polymer-Brush Lubricated Surfaces with Colloidal Inclusions under Shear Inversion

(2011) L. Spirin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Polymer brushes under flow and in other out-of-equilibrium conditions

(2011) Kurt Binder et al.   Soft Matter

Polyelectrolyte brushes studied by surface forces measurement

(2010) Kazue Kurihara   ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Polymer-brush lubrication in the limit of strong compression

(2010) L. Spirin et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

Frictional Forces between Strongly Compressed, Nonentangled Polymer Brushes: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Scaling Theory

(2010) A. Galuschko et al.   LANGMUIR

Polymer brushes in restricted geometries

(2010) Dennis John Mulder et al.   Soft Matter

Interactions between polymer brushes and a polymer solution: mesoscale modelling of the structural and frictional properties

(2010) Florent Goujon et al.   Soft Matter

Nanoscale Brushes: How to Build a Smart Surface Coating

(2009) Holger Merlitz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Lubrication at Physiological Pressures by Polyzwitterionic Brushes

(2009) M. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

CHEMISTRY: Repair or Replacement--A Joint Perspective

(2009) J. Klein   SCIENCE

Theory of the observed ultralow friction between sliding polyelectrolyte brushes

(2008) J. B. Sokoloff   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Grafted Polymer Chains Interacting with Substrates: Computer Simulations and Scaling

(2008) Radu Descas et al.   MACROMOLECULAR THEORY AND SIMULATIONS

Semianalytical Continuum Model for Nondilute Neutral and Charged Brushes Including Finite Stretching

(2008) P. M. Biesheuvel et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Flow and transport in brush-coated capillaries: A molecular dynamics simulation

(2008) D. I. Dimitrov et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS