Toward Effective and Adsorption-Based Antifouling Zipper Brushes: Effect of pH, Salt, and Polymer Design.

ABSTRACT: The undesired spontaneous deposition and accumulation of matter on surfaces, better known as fouling, is a problematic and often inevitable process plaguing a variety of industries. This detrimental process can be reduced or even prevented by coating surfaces with a dense layer of end-grafted polymer: a polymer brush. Producing such polymer brushes via adsorption presents a very attractive technique, as large surfaces can be coated in a quick and simple manner. Recently, we introduced a simple and scalable two-step adsorption strategy to fabricate block copolymer-based antifouling coatings on hydrophobic surfaces. This two-step approach involved the initial adsorption of hydrophobic-charged diblock copolymer micelles acting as a primer, followed by the complexation of oppositely charged-an

SUBMITTER: Maan AMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10580283 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature