Papers Published

1. Hongwei Ma and Textor, M. and Clark, R.L. and Chilkoti, A., Monitoring kinetics of surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, Biointerphases J. (USA), vol. 1 no. 1 (2006), pp. 35 - 9 [1.2190697] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/12)

   Abstract:
   This article reports that the kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization can be quantified by the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) technique. The kinetics of in situ growth of poly(oligoethylene glycol methylmethacrylate) monitored on a gold-coated QCM-D sensor chip revealed that changes in the experimentally observed frequency (ΔF) and dissipation (ΔD) as a function of polymerization time were a function of the initiator density, and that the experimental response could be predicted from a continuum model

   Keywords:
   biomimetics;microbalances;polymer films;polymerisation;viscoelasticity;