Development of Photopatterned Nanoscale Grafting Systems

This project looks into the nanometer scale photo grafting techniques that allow for polymer brushed to be grown off a surface using photopolymerization techniques.  Specifically, thiol-ene systems, due to their A-B reaction path, can be exploited to allow for chained to a be formed of a uniform discrete length.  With patterning of these surfaces, research is looking towards patterning multiple types of brushes on a surface, allowing for specific interactions to occur on an even smaller scale size than previous work.