Karina Grundke

TL;DR: Heterogeneous binary polymer brushes consist of an assembly of polymer chains of two incompatible polymers that are attached by one end to the surface with sufficient grafting density as mentioned in this paper, which can be used in the form of ultrathin polymeric layers as a versatile tool for surface engineering to tune physico-chemical surface characteristics such as wettability, surface charge, chemical composition or morphology, and furthermore to create switchable and responsive surface properties.

TL;DR: The results obtained indicate that spreading (if it occurs) in the long-time regime is controlled not only by the diffusive transport of surfactant to the expanding liquid-vapor interface, but also by another process involving adsorption at the expanding solid-liquid interface which goes more slowly than diffusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, two human plasma proteins (albumin-HSA, fibrinogen-FGN) on hydrophobic fluorohydrocarbon polymer (CHF) films were characterized by spectroscopic ellipsometry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interphase properties of glass fiber/polypropylene composites have been investigated using fibres sized with γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (A1100) and various polymer dispersions (polyethylene/polyurethane (PE/PUR).

TL;DR: The functionalization of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) for human thrombomodulin (hTM) binding has been achieved by CO2 plasma activation and subsequent vapour phase graft polymerization of acrylic acid.