Functionalization and Patterning of Self-Assembled Monolayers and Polymer Brushes Using Microcontact Chemistry

Abstract

BiographiesSebastian Lamping received his MSc degree in 2015 and is currently a PhD candidate in chemistry at the WWU Munster. His research focuses on the functionalization of glass and silicon surfaces with various polymer brushes for the development of responsive adhesive surfaces.Christoph Buten received his MSc degree from WWU Munster in 2016. He is currently working on his PhD thesis in the field of surface functionalization with biomolecules and the development of functional surfaces using polymer brush functionalized glass, silicon, and silica substrates.Bart Jan Ravoo received his MSc and PhD degree from the University of Groningen. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin and assistant professor at the University of Twente. Currently, he is full professor at the WWU Munster. The "leitmotiv" of his research is self-assembly, and together with his group, he develops responsive soft materials and functional surfaces by bottomup self-assembly of molecular and nanoscale building blocks. ■ ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ra 1732/9).

BIO bragg gratings on microfibers for label-free biosensing

“…A critical step in this approach is the BBG patterning, and herein we address it by microcontact printing. This is an important and versatile technique in the state-of-art (Lamping et al, 2019;X. Wang et al, 2020), widely used to create functional and homogeneous patterns of biomolecules onto flat substrates of different compositions (Juste-Dolz et al, 2018).…”

Making the best of it: nitroxide-mediated polymerization of methacrylatesviathe copolymerization approach with functional styrenics

“…Functional/reactive polymer brushes are a robust avenue to homogeneous reactive coatings of tunable thicknesses. [75][76][77][78] Polymer brushes are mostly obtained by surface-initiated (SI) RAFT polymerization or ATRP and examples of SI-NMP are relatively scarce. 79 There is in fact no example of brushes based on (near-)pure methacrylics obtained by SI-NMP in a controlled manner.…”

Surface Engineering with Polymer Brush Photolithography

“…The first approach involves prepatterning of initiators on surfaces and subsequent SI‐P. This approach has been reviewed extensively, [ 25–29 ] with related techniques including microcontact printing (μCP), [ 27,30,31 ] ink‐jet printing, [ 27 ] e‐beam lithography, [ 28 ] laser‐based lithography, [ 27 ] scanning probe lithography, [ 27 ] UV lithography, [ 26,28 ] interference lithography, [ 26 ] and dip‐pen nanolithography. [ 26 ] Alternatively, a substrate can be uniformly functionalized with an initiator monolayer from which polymer brushes are grown using photochemistry.…”