综述了近年来聚合物刷合成与应用方面的新进展.简要介绍了利用表面引发原子转移自由基聚合(SI-ATRP)制备聚合物刷的历程和重要进展.重点论述了通过电化学、光诱导以及牺牲阳极技术、仿生合成等发展了多种表面引发ATRP新方法,基于如何将聚合物从分子尺度过渡到微米尺度的思考,实现了多尺度聚合物刷结构的制备.简要综述了聚合物刷在以下3个方面的应用研究:(1)智能驱动,利用聚合物刷构象变化,实现微悬臂驱动、辅助放大的电驱动以及仿毛毛虫运动.(2)生物润滑,利用聚合物的环境响应行为实现了对摩擦系数的调控,并发展了球刷型润滑材料.(3)表面防污,表面接枝含离子液体官能团的聚合物刷,并与仿生技术相结合,利用化学组成和结构化协同效应,得到一系列高性能低毒海洋防污界面材料.
Recent advances in surface-initiated polymer brushes and specific applications in various research fields are reviewed, the development of surface-initiated atom radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) is highlighted. The general surface modification method is described in detail to realize functional modification on almost all substrates. The combination of the surface-initiated polymerization with other soft lithography techniques, e. g. , micro-contacting printing enables the easy surface functionalization with various surface morphologies such as pattern and gradient. The fundamental mechanistic and synthetic features of SI-ATRP are discussed and some new techniques particularly external-stimuli mediated catalytic and initiation systems are highlighted, including electrochemistry, chemical reducing agents and photochemistry, which have many potential applications in fields such as lubrication,anti-fouling and so on. These methods have solved problems occurring in traditional SI-ATRP, such as inert atmosphere protection, poor controllability, difficulty to recycle monomers,and single modification of substrates. Besides, polymer brush with micrometer scale prepared by using anodic aluminium oxide as a template create multi-scale structures on surfaces. Applications of polymer brush are reviewed mainly in three aspects in this review. (1) Smart actuation:external-stimuli responsive polymer brushes coated substrates can be used as a smart actuator due to the conformation changes of the polymer chains when surrounding environment changes, for example, performing the worm-like movements. (2) Bio-lubrication:polymer brushes have been used as effective lubricating materials on surfaces and the frictional coefficient can be regulated by changing the solvent conditions. (3) Antifouling:Polyelectrolyte brush grafted substrates have been found many applications in biological fields such as antifouling coatings, a series of high performance,low toxicity marine antifouling materials have been developed by ta