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Monitoring kinetics of surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation

Biointerphases volume 1, pages35–39 (2006) | Download Citation

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This article reports that the kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization can be quantified by the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) technique. The kinetics of in situ growth of poly(oligoethylene glycol methylmethacrylate) monitored on a gold-coated QCM-D sensor chip revealed that changes in the experimentally observed frequency (ΔF) and dissipation (ΔD) as a function of polymerization time were a function of the initiator density, and that the experimental response could be predicted from a continuum model.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 27708-0281, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    • Hongwei Ma

  2. Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    • Marcus Textor

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, 27708-0300, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    • Robert L. Clark

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 27708-0281, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    • Ashutosh Chilkoti

  5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, China

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