Stretching of collapsed polymers causes an enhanced dissipative response of PNIPAM brushes near their LCST

Swelling and Thermoresponsive Behavior of Linear versus Cyclic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Thin Films

(2015) David Magerl et al.   MACROMOLECULES

From Molecular Dehydration to Excess Volumes of Phase-Separating PNIPAM Solutions

(2014) Martine Philipp et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Electrografting of Stimuli-Responsive, Redox Active Organometallic Polymers to Gold from Ionic Liquids

(2014) Xueling Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stimulus-responsive polymers and other functional polymer surfaces as components in glass microfluidic channels

(2014) Bernard D. Kieviet et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

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

(2014) Sissi de Beer   LANGMUIR

Highly Efficient and Versatile Formation of Biocompatible Star Polymers in Pure Water and Their Stimuli-Responsive Self-Assembly

(2014) Thomas G. McKenzie et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2014) Sissi de Beer et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2014) Qi Chen et al.   Soft Matter

Polymer fluctuation lubrication in hydrogel gemini interfaces

(2014) A. A. Pitenis et al.   Soft Matter

Solvent-induced immiscibility of polymer brushes eliminates dissipation channels

(2014) Sissi de Beer et al.   Nature Communications

Cosolvency-Induced Switching of the Adhesion between Poly(methyl methacrylate) Brushes

(2014) Yunlong Yu et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Tuning the Tribological Property with Thermal Sensitive Microgels for Aqueous Lubrication

(2013) Guoqiang Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tailoring enzyme activity and stability using polymer-based protein engineering

(2013) Chad Cummings et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Switching Friction with Thermal- Responsive Gels

(2013) Yang Wu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Surface Microdynamics Phase Transition and Internal Structure of High-Density, Ultrathin PHEMA-b-PNIPAM Diblock Copolymer Brushes on Silicone Rubber

(2013) K. Jalili et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Immense elastic nonlinearities at the demixing transition of aqueous PNIPAM solutions

(2013) Martine Philipp et al.   Soft Matter

Electrochemical sensing by surface-immobilized poly(ferrocenylsilane) grafts

(2012) Xiaofeng Sui et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Temperature-Sensitive Swelling of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Brushes with Low Molecular Weight and Grafting Density

(2012) Eva Bittrich et al.   LANGMUIR

Antibacterial Surfaces Based on Polymer Brushes: Investigation on the Influence of Brush Properties on Antimicrobial Peptide Immobilization and Antimicrobial Activity

(2011) Guangzheng Gao et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Nanomechanical properties of polymer brushes by colloidal AFM probes

(2011) Edit Kutnyanszky et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Fabrication and responsive behaviour of Quantum Dot/PNIPAM micropatterns obtained by template copolymerization in water

(2011) Domink Jańczewski et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Noncontact Method for Calibration of Lateral Forces in Scanning Force Microscopy

(2011) Kyle Wagner et al.   LANGMUIR

Biomimetic Anchors for Antifouling and Antibacterial Polymer Brushes on Stainless Steel

(2011) Wen Jing Yang et al.   LANGMUIR

Probing the Collapse Dynamics of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Brushes by AFM: Effects of Co-nonsolvency and Grafting Densities

(2011) Xiaofeng Sui et al.   Small

A comparative study on switchable adhesion between thermoresponsive polymer brushes on flat and rough surfaces

(2011) Ekaterina Svetushkina et al.   Soft Matter

Normal and Lateral Interactions between Thermosensitive Nanoparticle Monolayers in Water

(2010) Xavier Banquy et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST) Phase Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide) in Ionic Liquids

(2010) Hau-Nan Lee et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Friction in aqueous media tuned by temperature-responsive polymer layers

(2010) Andra Dedinaite et al.   Soft Matter

Colloid probe AFM study of thermal collapse and protein interactions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) coatings

(2010) Martin A. Cole et al.   Soft Matter

Thermoresponsive copolymers: from fundamental studies to applications

(2009) Ruixue Liu et al.   COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE

Surface and Bulk Collapse Transitions of Thermoresponsive Polymer Brushes

(2009) Xavier Laloyaux et al.   LANGMUIR

Interaction Forces between Microsized Silica Particles and Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes at Varying pH and Salt Concentration

(2009) Astrid Drechsler et al.   LANGMUIR

Density Effects on Collapse, Compression, and Adhesion of Thermoresponsive Polymer Brushes

(2009) Ibrahim B. Malham et al.   LANGMUIR

Tunable Nanolubrication between Dual-Responsive Polyionic Grafts

(2009) Niklas Nordgren et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

Surface relaxations of poly(methyl methacrylate) assessed by friction force microscopy on the nanoscale

(2009) Ewa Tocha et al.   Soft Matter

Swelling Behavior of Multiresponsive Poly(methacrylic acid)-block--poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Brushes Synthesized Using Surface-Initiated Photoiniferter-Mediated Photopolymerization

(2008) Santosh B. Rahane et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Polymerization of oligo(ethylene glycol) (meth)acrylates: Toward new generations of smart biocompatible materials

(2008) Jean-François Lutz   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Grafted Polymer Chains Interacting with Substrates: Computer Simulations and Scaling

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

pH and salt responsive poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) cylindrical brushes and their quaternized derivatives

(2008) Youyong Xu et al.   POLYMER

Sweet, Hairy, Soft, and Slippery

(2008) S. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Probing the Morphology and Nanoscale Mechanics of Single Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgels Across the Lower-Critical-Solution Temperature by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2007) Oya Tagit et al.   Small