Smart Colloidal Assembly and Nanopatterning—Surface-Polymerization and Templating for Sensing and Delivery

Controlled wetting behavior and transport in coatings are essential for anti-corrosion coatings separation applications. The use of polymer latex particles (colloidal nanosphere lithography or CNL) to enable non-lithographic patterning and templating has been done by our group for some years now to demonstrate the possibility of nanostructuring together with electropolymerized conducting polymers. This talk will present the following: 1) the application of CNL for controlled patterning of electrodeposited polymers and grafted polymer brushes, 2) molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) and sensing, and 3) dynamic properties of CNL patterned surface initiated (SIP) polymer brushes for capture and release of proteins and analytes for sensors and separations. it is important to demonstrate the structure-composition-processing-property (SCPP) correlation with these studies.