Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

Aafke Tessa Ten Cate

Joost Hubert Maas

Ralf Guillaume Jean Catharina Heijkants

Eric Gerardus Maria Craenmehr

The invention relates to a liquid composition comprising polymer chains and particles of an inorganic material in a liquid, an article comprising said liquid composition, a gel obtained from said liquid composition, an article comprising said gel, and the use of said liquid composition. The liquid composition comprises polymer chains and particles of an inorganic material in a liquid, wherein the polymer chains are linked to particles of the inorganic material by means of a functional group that is present in the polymer chains, wherein the polymer used has a lower critical solution temperature in the liquid used, and wherein the liquid composition exhibits thermo-induced gelation.

Liquid composition comprising polymer chains and particles of an inorganic material in a liquid

The present invention relates to 'grafting to' methods of modifying materials surfaces with high-density polymer brushes. A method of the present invention comprises contacting in succession or simultaneously an activated material surface, a solution of a polymeric material having a polymeric backbone with pendant reactive moieties, and a melt of brush-forming terminally-functionalized polymer chains, in order to allow a covalent bonding reaction to occur between surface and polymers, wherein upon completion of the reaction, the polymeric material forms a layer between the material surface and the brush polymer chains.

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