title: Monitoring kinetics of surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation.
abstract: This article reports that the kinetics of surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization can be quantified by the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) technique. The kinetics of in situ growth of poly(oligoethylene glycol methylmethacrylate) monitored on a gold-coated QCM-D sensor chip revealed that changes in the experimentally observed frequency (DeltaF) and dissipation (DeltaD) as a function of polymerization time were a function of the initiator density, and that the experimental response could be predicted from a continuum model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0281, USA.
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Textor
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Ashutosh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chilkoti