Patterned polymer brushes grafted from bromine-functionalized, chemically active surface templates

Patterned polymer films are grafted from chem. active surface templates prepd. by the localized electrochem. oxidn. of an n-octadecyltrichlorosilane monolayer to form addressable areas for the site-selective binding of a bromine-terminated precursor. Atom-transfer radical polymn. of polystyrene generated stable, patterned polymer structures of different shapes and dimensions (see image). Electroprinting was used to generate features in the micro/mm range.