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Surfaces/Interfaces of soft matters 1. Polymer brushes, acted as typical Surfaces/Interfaces of soft matters, have emerged as a robust method for creating surfaces with a wide range of mechanical and chemical properties and could in many ways act as ideal alternatives to self-assembled monolayers. They have widespread applications as model responsive and non-biofouling surfaces, in protein binding and immobilization studies, antibacterial coatings, actuation, and low friction surfaces. 
Figure 1, Left, schematic view of polymer brush formation. Right, multicomponent polymer brushes.
2. Catechols and their derived compounds can self-assemble on various inorganic and organic materials, including noble metals, metals, metal oxides, mica, silica, ceramics and even polymers. It opens a new route to the modification of various substrates and the preparation of functional composite materials by simple chemistry. 
Figure 2, Bioinspired catecholic chemistry for surface modification Recent Publications: Bin Li, Bo Yu, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Weimin Liu, Feng Zhou*, Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization on non-conducting substrates: controlled brush growth through catalyst diffusion, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 1708-1710. DOI: 10.1021/ja3116197. Bin Li, Bo Yu, Wilhelm. T. S. Huck, Feng Zhou, Weimin Liu, Electrochemically induced surface-initiated atomic transfer radical polymerization, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2012, 51, 5092-5095. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201201533 Feng Zhou, Zijian Zheng, Bo Yu, Weimin Liu, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Multicomponent Polymer Brushes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 16253-16258. DOI: 10.1021/ja0654377 Feng Zhou, Wilhelm. T. S. Huck, Surface grafted polymer brushes as ideal building blocks for “smart” surfaces, Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics, 2006, 8, 3815–3823. DOI: 10.1039/B606415A
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