Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer BrushesSissi de Beer 1,2, Edit Kutnyanszky 2, Martin H. Müser 1,3, G. Julius Vancso 2
1Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 2Materials Science and Technology of Polymer, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Universität des Saarlandes
The methodology to perform friction force microscopy experiments for contacting brushes is presented: Two polymer brushes that are grafted from (a) substrates and (b) colloidal probes are slid to show that, by using two contacting immiscible brush systems, friction in sliding contacts is reduced compared to miscible brush systems.
