Mushroom-brush transition

Fig. 8. Schematic representation of the possible conformations of adsorbed (co)polymers prepared using macromonomer technique a brush adsorption of graft copolymer b terminally-attached adsorption c the mushroom-brush transition for strongly overlapping chains proposed by de Gennes [130] and Alexander [155]...

Dry poly(methyl methacrylate) layer thickness as a function of exposure time at a light intensity of 5mW/cm. Methyl methacrylate concentrations in toluene are ( ) 1.17, ( ) 2.34, and ( ) 4.68 M. Arrows indicate the apparent mushroom-to-brush transition for the concentrations studied, and the dotted lines show the behavior of an ideal, living photopolymerization. The slopes of these lines also represent the initial growth rates of the PMMA layer. (Reprinted with permission from Rahane, S. B., et al.. Kinetics Macromolecules, 38, 8202-8210, 2005, copyright (2005) American Chemical Society.)... 

In the SCF approach the isolated chains are Gaussian, while in the SCMF theory they are self-avoiding walks. Thus, the SCMF theory is a more appropriate treatment of grafted layers for the mushroom regime and the mushroom to brush transition region. ... 

Fig. 3.10 Schematic illustration of the mushroom-to-brush transition during the grafting of PDEM chains. Reprinted from Ref. [14], Copyright 2006, with permission from Elsevier...

Liu GM, Yan LF, Chen X, Zhang GZ (2006) Study of the kinetics of mushroom-to-brush transition of charged polymer chains. Polymer 47 3157-3163... 

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