Igor Luzinov

TL;DR: The utility of electrospun poly(glycidyl methacrylate) films as a highly versatile platform for the development of functional nanostructured materials anchored to a surface is demonstrated and functional nanocomposites can be fabricated using this platform with properties for sensing, fluorescence imaging, and magneto-responsiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of ultrathin films of elastomeric materials from polyisoprene rubbers and triblock styrene-butadiene-styrene copolymer, SEBS, were studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the addition of polymer polystyrene to monomeric styrene is facilitated by mechanochemical processing at room temperature under ambient atmosphere, and the reaction occurs in metal-based milling media in concert with scission of macromolecular chains that generates carbon-centered free-radicals detectable by EPR spectroscopy, even though the processing is performed in air.

TL;DR: This work used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to study both the morphology and elastic properties of polymers in media with different acidity, in order to determine the mechanism behind the dewetting process.

TL;DR: In this paper, robust and uniform ultrathin elastomeric films with complete surface coverage were fabricated from poly[styrene-b-(ethylene-co-butylene)-b-styrene] (SEBS) functionalized with 2% of maleic anhydride by grafting to a chemically modified silicon surface via epoxy-terminated self-assembling monolayers.