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SYSM: Interplay of Substrate Adaptivity and Wetting Dynamics from Soft Matter to Biology

SYSM 1: Interplay of Substrate Adaptivity and Wetting Dynamics from Soft Matter to Biology

SYSM 1.3: Invited Talk

Wednesday, September 7, 2022, 16:00–16:30, H1

Wetting of Polymer Brushes in Air — Lars Veldscholte, Guido Ritsema van Eck, Liz Mensink, Jacco Snoeijer, and •Sissi de Beer — Sustainable Polymer Chemistry Group, Department of Molecules & Materials, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

For the development of brush-based functional surface-coatings, it is critical to understand their properties, because they will determine their performance and user-experience. Polymer brush wetting is a key parameter in this. In this presentation we will show that brushes can display counter-intuitive wetting properties. We aim to unravel those by combining molecular dynamics simulations, contact angle goniometry and ellipsometry laboratory experiments.