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Unless a material discharges freely, cleaners are required on belt conveyors and may be helpful on others. Common types use a rotating brush, powered from the convevor head-pulley shaft or independently, or a spring-mounted blade. The latter is applicable only at some point where the belt conveyor lies reasonably flat. Whenever cleaners are used, provision should be made for catching and chuting the material back into the main discharge stream or to a collecting container which can be periodically emptied. 

Aospiiiseln, v.t. paint brush out paint out. kM tten, v.t. flatten out, hammer flat pave with slabs or tiles. 

The importance of polydispersity is an interesting clue that it may be possible to tailor the weak interactions between polymer brushes by controlled polydispersity, that is, designed mixtures of molecular weight. A mixture of two chain lengths in a flat tethered layer can be analyzed via the Alexander model since the extra chain length in the longer chains, like free chains, will not penetrate the denser, shorter brush. This is one aspect of the vertical segregation phenomenon discussed in the next section. 

In recent years, much attention has been paid to the use of controlled/ living polymerizations from flat and spherical surfaces [121,122],because this allows better control over the MW and MWD of the target polymer. By using these techniques, a high grafting density and a controlled film thickness can be obtained, as such brushes consist of end-grafted, strictly linear chains of the same length and the chains are forced to stretch away from the flat surface. Several research... 

Tapping mode SFM was employed to visualize cylindrical brushes of polymethyl-methacrylate as single species laying flat on a solid substrate (Fig. 23 a). Light scattering studies in solution allowed a complementary characterization of the size and conformation of the molecules in the diluted state. Two important observations have been made, that corroborate the theoretical predictions ... 

It must be noted that the end-to-end distance of the brushes is also affected by adsorbing them flatly on a hard wall. In monolayers (d = 2) the molecules are constrained to two dimensions which favors extension and parallel aUgnment [ 163 ]. This is particularly pronounced if the side chains get tightly adsorbed and will be discussed in detail below. Yet even in the case of a weak interaction with a substrate, the chains are extended. In contrast, in thick films the individual chain can adopt a less straight conformation by transition between layers in the z-direction. Figure 24 clearly demonstrates the difference in the ordering of cylindrical brushes of polystyrene depending on the film thickness [78]. 

Based on this approach Schouten et al. [254] attached a silane-functionalized styrene derivative (4-trichlorosilylstyrene) on colloidal silica as well as on flat glass substrates and silicon wafers and added a five-fold excess BuLi to create the active surface sites for LASIP in toluene as the solvent. With THF as the reaction medium, the BuLi was found to react not only with the vinyl groups of the styrene derivative but also with the siloxane groups of the substrate. It was found that even under optimized reaction conditions, LASIP from silica and especially from flat surfaces could not be performed in a reproducible manner. Free silanol groups at the surface as well as the ever-present impurities adsorbed on silica, impaired the anionic polymerization. However, living anionic polymerization behavior was found and the polymer load increased linearly with the polymerization time. Polystyrene homopolymer brushes as well as block copolymers of poly(styrene-f)lock-MMA) and poly(styrene-block-isoprene) could be prepared. 

Formation of the Grafting Density Gradient of PAA Brushes on Flat Substrates... 

Texture observed for a flat sample between crossed polarizers, showing a network of black brushes connecting centers of point and line defects. 

Among the two ionic polymerization techniques mentioned above, a living anionic polymerization should show the best possible control of polymer architecture and composition. Mono dispersed homopolymers, complex-block, graft, star, and miktoarm architectures have been accessible primarily by anionic polymerization methods [22]. They have been used to grow polymer brushes from various small particles such as silica gels graphite,carbon black, and flat surfaces [23-26]. Recent results have been reported on living anionic polymerizations on clay [27] and silica nanoparticles [28,29]. 

Similarly, several works can be cited on cationic SIP on flat substrates. Again, the advantage of cationic SIP is that it puts at one s disposal surface-sensitive spectroscopic methods that allow successful in situ characterization of polymer brushes on surfaces ... 

In this article, the use of anionic and cationic surface-initiated methods to form homopolymer and block copolymer brushes grafted from flat and nanoparticle surfaces has been reviewed. The future challenge in understand-... 

A subsequent question, which has been explicitly addressed, regards the interaction of the brush like molecules with the flat solid substrate [594,596]. The... 

Place the retina, with the interior surface facing up so that it resembles a small cup, in a pool of PBS. Using a sharp flat scalpel blade make 4-5 radial cuts around the perimeter of the retina. These cuts should extend about 1/2 to 2/3 the distance from the edge to the center of the retina and should allow the retina to lay flat on the slide. The retinal edges may have to be gently unfolded with the fine hair brush to obtain a flat retina. 

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