Responsive polymer brushes density effect

There is a host of other intriguing phenomena associated with the structure and dynamics of stars, which we only list here. The inhomogeneous monomer density distribution in Fig. 2 is responsible for temperature and/or solvency variation in analogy to polymer brushes attached on a flat solid surface [198]. In fact, multiarm star solutions display a reversible thermoresponsive vitrification (see also Sect. 5) which, in contrast to polymer solutions, occurs upon heating rather than on cooling [199]. Another effect is the organization of multiarm stars in filaments induced by weak laser light due to action of electrostrictive forces [200]. This effect was recently attributed [201] to local concentration fluctuations which provide localized-intensity dependent refractive index variations. Hence, the structure factor speciflc to the particular material plays a crucial role in the pattern formation. 

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