Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes

Sissi de Beer; Edit Kutnyanszky; Martin H. M&#252;ser; G. Julius Vancso

doi:10.3791/52285

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Vorbereitung und Reibungskraftmikroskopie Messungen mischbar, Entgegenpolymerbürsten

Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes

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Ingenieurwesen

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JoVE Journal Ingenieurwesen

Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes

Vorbereitung und Reibungskraftmikroskopie Messungen mischbar, Entgegenpolymerbürsten

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December 24, 2014

DOI:

10.3791/52285-v

DOI:

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Sissi de Beer^1,2, Edit Kutnyanszky², Martin H. Müser^1,3, G. Julius Vancso²

¹Jülich Supercomputing Centre,Forschungszentrum Jülich, ²Materials Science and Technology of Polymer, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology,University of Twente, ³Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Universität des Saarlandes

Summary

The methodology to perform friction force microscopy experiments for contacting brushes is presented: Two polymer brushes that are grafted from (a) substrates and (b) colloidal probes are slid to show that, by using two contacting immiscible brush systems, friction in sliding contacts is reduced compared to miscible brush systems.