AFM Study of Comb Co Polymers with Complex Chain Architecture

AFM Study of Comb (Co)Polymers with Complex Chain Architecture 

Universite de Bordeaux, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymeres Organiques, 16 avenue Pey Berland, 33607, Pessac Cedex France 

Complex Macromolecular Architectures Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly, First Edition. 

Edited by Nikos Hadjichristidis, Akira Hirao, Yasuyuki Tezuka and Filip Du Prez. 

Direct visualization of isolated macromolecides by atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging and the statistical treatment performed on a large set of these molecides is an interesting and efficient approach that was recently used to study the stracture of comb polymers (Dziezok et al., 1997 Sheiko et al, 2003 VivUle et al., 2001 ViviUe et ai, 2000 Viville etai, 2004). Besides the analysis of single macromolecular objects with linear and star-like architecture this method was used to investigate the selectivity of various controlled-radical polymerization processes (Beers et al., 1999 Beers et al., 1998 Bomer et al., 2002 Qin et al., 2003 Min et al., 2007). 

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