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Symposium: S10 - Nano- and Microstructured Surfaces and Films
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Multifunctional and responsive surfaces using nanostrucrured polymer brushes

Uhlmann Petra (1)*, Münch Alexander (1), Adam Stefan (1), Rauch Sebastian (1)

(1) Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. - Saxony - Germany

Polymer brushes are used as a toolbox to build up coatings by using the buttom-up principle to create the desired surface function [1]. The used building blocks are (bio)functional linear block or comb polymers which ensure at one hand the chemical coupling to the surface and at the other hand the desired function. Such coatings can be composed by one or several different polymers to realize for instance switching (i.e. adaption to changing environmental conditions or active switching of surface properties)or to serve as optical sensor or bioactive substrate by incorporating nanoparticles or biomolecules into the layer [2,3]. Those hybrid layers are enormously be in principle applied to every substrate by adapting the grafting procedure to technological coatings processes [4]. Examples for those applications are anti-icing, anti-fouling, anti-soil or novel easy-to clean coatings [5].