Oscillating Reactions Meet Polymers at Interfaces
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Stimuli-Responsive Polymers at Interfaces: What’s So Special about Them?
1.2. Chemical Clocks and Oscillating Reactions
2. Chemo-Mechanical Oscillations in Surface-Grafted Single Polymer Chains and Layer-by-Layer Assemblies
2.1. Self-Oscillating Surface-Grafted Single Polymer Chains
2.2. Self-Oscillating Layer-by-Layer Assemblies
3. Self-Oscillating Polymer Brushes
4. Conclusions and Outlook
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Self-Oscillating Polymer System | Role of the Polymer | Oscillating Reaction | Features | Ref. |
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BZ-powered surface-grafted chains | Active | Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) | Chains of random NIPAM-based copolymer functionalized with a Ru-bpy catalyst. | [57,59] |
Surface-grafted pH-responsive LbL | Passive | Bromate–sulfite–ferricyanide (BSF) | Layer-by-layer assembly of acrylic acid-based copolymers crosslinked by click chemistry to avoid layer separation during pH-induced oscillations (swelling-collapsing). | [66] |
pH-responsive polymer brushes | Passive | Bromate–sulfite–ferricyanide | Homopolymer brushes of pol(acrylic acid) prepared by grafting-from with ATRP. | [84] |
BZ-powered polymer brushes | Active | Belousov–Zhabotinsky | Polymer brushes based on NIPAM and incorporating a Ru-bpy catalyst, made by grafting-from on solid surface. Chemical waves observed, propagating randomly. | [85,86] |
BZ-powered polymer brushes | Active | Belousov–Zhabotinsky | Polymer brushes (see above) grown on porous surface. Slower, random propagation of chemical waves thanks to increased diffusivity of chemical species. | [93] |
BZ-powered polymer brushes | Active | Belousov–Zhabotinsky | Polymer brushes (see above) grown on a solid surface with a thickness gradient. The propagation of chemical waves is controlled from thinner to thicker regions. | [87] |
BZ-powered polymer brushes | Active | Belousov–Zhabotinsky | Patterned polymer brushes (see above) grown on a solid surface. Controlled unidirectional (plane-to-corner) propagation of chemical waves thanks to preferential diffusion of HBrO2. | [89] |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleOsypova, Alina, Matthias Dübner, and Guido Panzarasa. 2020. "Oscillating Reactions Meet Polymers at Interfaces" Materials 13, no. 13: 2957. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma13132957