Materials Science and Technology of Polymers

Publications in 2014

Journal articles:

Ang Li, Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Prathima C. Nalam, Benetti, E. M. and Nicholas D. Spencer
Stratified Polymer Grafts: Synthesis and Characterization of Layered ‘Brush’ and ‘Gel’ Structures, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Volume 1, Issue 1, February 13, 2014

Beer, de, S.
Switchable Friction Using Contacts of Stimulus-Responsive and Nonresponding Swollen Polymer Brushes, Langmuir 30, 8085-8090 (2014)

S. de Beer and M.H. Müser
Friction in (im-)miscible polymer brush systems and the role of transverse polymer tilting, Macromolecules 47, 7666-7673 (2014)

Beer,de.S., Kutnyanszky,E., Müser,M.H., Vancso,G.J
Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes J. Vis. Exp. 94, e52285 (2014)

Beer, de. S., Kutnyanszky,E., Vancso, G.J., Müser, M.H.
Glad en glibberig door biogeïnspireerde polymeerborstels, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde 80, 330-333 (2014)

Beer, de, S., Kutnyanszky, E., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J., Müser, M.H.
Solvent-induced immiscibility of polymer brushes eliminates dissipation channels, Nature Comm., 5, 3781 - 3787  (2014)

Brzozowska, A.M., Parra-Velandia, F.J., Quintana, R., Xiaoying, Z., Lee, S.S.C., Chin-Sing, L., Jańczewski, D., Teo, S.L-M., Vancso, G.J.
Biomimicking Micropatterned Surfaces and Their Effect on Marine Biofouling, Langmuir, 30, 9165−9175 (2014)

Chen, Q., Kooij, E.S., Sui, X., Padberg, C.J., Hempenius, M.A., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J.  
Collapse from the top: Brushes of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in co-nonsolvent mixtures, Soft Matter, 10, 3134-3142 (2014)

Cumurcu, A., Feng, X., Dos Ramos, L., Hempenius, M.A., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J.
Sub-nanometer expansions of redox responsive polymer films monitored by imaging ellipsometry, Nanoscale, 6, 12089 – 12095 (2014)

Duvigneau, J., Kutnyanszky, E., Phang, I.Y., Chung, H.-J., Wu, H., Dos Ramos, L., Gädt, T., Yusoff, S.F.M., Hempenius, M.A., Manners, I., Vancso, G.J. Raft crystals of poly(isoprene)-block-poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane) and their surface wetting behavior during melting as observed by AFM and NanoTA, Polymer (UK), 55, 2716 – 2724 (2014)

Jańczewski, D., Song, J., Vancso, G.J.
Colloidal, water soluble probes constructed with quantum dots and amphiphilic poly(ferrocenylsilane) for smart redox sensing, Eur. Pol. J., 54, 87– 94 (2014)

Feng, X., Kieviet, B.D., Song, J., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J.
Adhesion forces in AFM of redox responsive polymer grafts: Effects oftip hydrophilicity, Appl. Surf. Sci., 292, 107– 110 (2014)

Feng, X., Sui, X., Hempenius, M.A., Vancso, G.J.
Electrografting of stimuli-responsive, redox active organometallic polymers to gold from ionic liquids, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 7865 - 7868 (2014)

Groot, De G.W., Demarche, S., Santonicola, M.G, Tiefenauer, L., Vancso, G.J 
Smart polymer brush nanostructures guide the self-assembly of pore-spanning lipid bilayers with integrated membrane proteins, Nanoscale, 6, 2228 – 2237 (2014)

Kutnyanszky, E., Hempenius, M.A., Vancso, G.J.
Polymer bottlebrushes with redox responsive backbone feel the heat: Synthesis and characterization of dual responsive poly(ferrocenylsilane)s with PNIPAM side chains, Polym. Chem., 5, 771 – 783 (2014)

Kieviet, B.D., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J.
Stimulus-responsive polymers and other functional polymer surfaces as components in glass microfluidic channels, Lab Chip, 14, 4159 – 4170 (2014)

Moroni, L., Klein Gunnewiek, M., Benetti, E.M.
Polymer brush coatings regulating cell behavior: Passive interfaces turn into active, Acta Biomaterialia, 10, 2367 –2378 (2014)

Quintana, R., Jańczewski, D., Vasantha, V.A., Jana, S., Lee, S.S.C., Parra-Velandia, F.J., Guo, S., Parthiban, A., Teo, S.L.M., Vancso, G.J.
Sulfobetaine-based polymer brushes in marine environment: Is there an effect of the polymerizable group on the antifouling performance? J.Coll. Surf. B: Biointerf., 120, 118 - 124 (2014)

Raaijmakers, M.J.T., Hempenius, M.A., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J. Nijmeijer, A., Wessling, M., Benes, N.E.
Sieving of Hot Gases by Hyper-Cross-Linked Nanoscale-Hybrid Membranes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 330 – 335 (2014)

Schön, P.M., Gosa, M., Vancso, G.J.
Nanoscale mechanical properties of single biomolecules by AFM, Rev. Roum. Chim., 58, 577- 583 (2013)

Sui, X., Shui, L., Cui, J., Xie, Y., Song, J., Van den Berg, A., Vancso, G.J.
Redox-responsive organometallic microgel particles prepared from poly(ferrocenylsilane)s generated using microfluidics, Chem. Comm., 50, 3058 – 3060 (2014)

Vasanthar, V.A., Parthiban, S.J.A., Vancso, G.J.
Water swelling, brine soluble imidazole based zwitterionic polymers - synthesis, studies of reversible UCST behaviour and gel-sol transitions, Chem. Comm., 50, 46 – 48 (2014)

Wu, H., Sotthewesa, K., Méndez-Ardoyc, A., Kudernacc, T., Huskens, J., Lenferink, A., Otto, C., Schön, P.M., Vancso, G.J., Zandvliet, H.J.W.
Dynamics of oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) self-assembled monolayerson Au(1 1 1), Chem. Phys. Lett., 614, Pages 45 – 48 (2014)

Zhu, X., Guo, S., Janczewski, D., Parra Velandia, F.J., Teo, S. L-M., Vancso, G.J.
Multilayers of Fluorinated Amphiphilic Polyions for Marine Fouling Prevention, Langmuir, 30, 288 – 296 (2014)

Zhang, K., Feng, X., Sui, X., Hempenius, M. A., Vancso, G. J.
Breathing Pores on Command: Redox-Responsive Spongy Membranes from Poly(ferrocenylsilane)s, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 13789 –13793 (2014)