Year: 2010
Journal: Polym. Chem., 2010, 1, 276-279, 20120104
Authors: 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
Last authors: Thomas P. Davis
Organizations: a Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 3 Research Link, 117602, 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, 119223, Singapore c GE Water and Process Technologies, WS2-M-4, 1 Engineering Drive 1, 117580, Singapore d Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. E-mail: t.davis@unsw.edu.au
Country: Singapore, Australia
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.
