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Solvent-driven migration of highly polar monomers into hydrophobic PDMS produces a thick graft layer via subsurface initiated ATRP for efficient antibiofouling

journal contribution
posted on 2020-05-07, 00:00 authored by Xin Yu, Yang Yang, Wufang Yang, Xungai Wang, Xin Liu, Feng Zhou, Yan Zhao
Organic solvents that possess affinity towards both polar monomers and hydrophobic PDMS play a “driving” role in the diffusion of polar monomers into the subsurface of the PDMS substrate.

History

Journal

Chemical Communications

Volume

56

Pagination

5030-5033

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1359-7345

eISSN

1364-548X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal, C Journal article

Issue

37

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry