title: Quartz crystal microbalance studies on conformational change of polymer chains at interface.
abstract: The conformation of polymers at interface profoundly influences the interfacial properties. Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) is a newly developed technique to detect polymer behavior at interface in real time. In this article, we mainly review our QCM-D studies. Our focus is on temperature induced collapse and swelling of tethered polymer chains, pancake-to-brush transition and mushroom-to-brush of polymer chains.
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. gzzhang@ustc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Guangzhao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Chi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu