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1. Ma, H; Textor, M; Clark, RL; Chilkoti, A, Monitoring kinetics of surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation., Biointerphases, vol. 1 no. 1 (March, 2006), pp. 35 [20408613], [doi] .
   (last updated on 2024/04/23)

   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 (DeltaF) and dissipation (DeltaD) 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;