Issue 3, 2010
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Polymer Chemistry

Barnacle repellent nanostructured surfaces formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers

Beng H. Tan,a   Hazrat Hussain,a   Kuan C. Chaw,a   Gary H. Dickinson,b   Chakra S. Gudipati,c   William R. Birch,*a   Serena L. M. Teo,b   Chaobin He,a   Ye Liu*a  and  Thomas P. Davis*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore
E-mail: ye-liu@imre.a-star.edu.sg, w-birch@imre.a-star.edu.sg

b Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

c GE Water and Process Technologies, WS2-M-4, 1 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore

d Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
E-mail: t.davis@unsw.edu.au

Abstract

Well-defined nanostructured surface with domains of dimension ∼20 nm was formed by the self-assembly of brush-type amphiphilic block copolymers of poly[poly(ethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate]-block-poly(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorostyrene) (P(PEGMA)-b-PPFS) which demonstrate promise in discouraging barnacle settlement as proven using laboratory settlement assays and marine field tests.

Graphical abstract: Barnacle repellent nanostructured surfaces formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B9PY00332K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Nov 2009
Accepted
17 Nov 2009
First published
22 Dec 2009

Polym. Chem., 2010,1, 276-279

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Barnacle repellent nanostructured surfaces formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers

B. H. Tan, H. Hussain, K. C. Chaw, G. H. Dickinson, C. S. Gudipati, W. R. Birch, S. L. M. Teo, C. He, Y. Liu and T. P. Davis, Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 276 DOI: 10.1039/B9PY00332K

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