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- Title
Repeatedly Regenerating Mechanically Robust Polymer Brushes from Persistent Initiator Coating (PIC).
- Authors
Liu, Yizhe; Li, Renjie; Xu, Rongnian; Liu, Yubo; Wu, Yang; Ma, Shuanhong; Ma, Zhengfeng; Pei, Xiaowei; Zhou, Feng
- Abstract
In this study, a novel surface initiated polymerization (SIP) method was developed from organic‐inorganic hybrid persistent initiator coating (PIC) that embeds initiator molecules into inorganic silica sol‐gel layer. Comparing with traditional silane initiator surface that prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, the PIC can effectively improve the mechanical stability of initiator that was able to endure ten‐thousand times of friction cycles. Besides, it allows polymer grafting from sub‐surface and so the grafted brushes, poly 3‐sulfopropyl methacrylate potassium salt (pSPMA) on the PIC were also much more wear‐resisting than those prepared by the traditional ways. More importantly, the PIC could still trigger new polymerization reaction when the grafted brushes were worn off. In addition, the PIC is universal and can be covered on different substrates including glass, metals and plastics, etc. to realize functionalization of these materials. The approach may pave technological way for the application of surface grafted polymer brushes.
- Subjects
CHEMICAL vapor deposition; GRAFT copolymers; POLYMERS; SURFACE coatings
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2022, Vol 134, Issue 26, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202204410