Polymer Brushes under High Load

Suzanne M Balko, Torsten Kreer, Philip J Costanzo, Tim E Patten, Albert Johner, Tonya L Kuhl and Carlos M Marques

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 3, 1-7

Abstract: Polymer coatings are frequently used to provide repulsive forces between surfaces in solution. After 25 years of design and study, a quantitative model to explain and predict repulsion under strong compression is still lacking. Here, we combine experiments, simulations, and theory to study polymer coatings under high loads and demonstrate a validated model for the repulsive forces, proposing that this universal behavior can be predicted from the polymer solution properties.

Date: 2013
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