title: Controlled polystyrene brushes grown on AFM tip.
abstract: We report here the first successful growth of Polystyrene brushes directly from the apex of a conventional AFM tip using a Langmuir-Blodgett deposition technique associated with a controlled free radical polymerization. The efficiency of the grafting together with the possibility to form multi-layers are checked through AFM force measurements between a bare or functionalized tip and a silicon wafer in water or xylene.
authors.affiliation: Polymeric Materials and Biomaterials Laboratory, Claude Bernard--Lyon 1 University, ISTIL 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Devaux
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chapel