Dynamic investigation of in situ Grown Living Polymer Brush: A Monte Carlo Simulation

A step toward an understanding of the role of the polydispersity in soft matter outdoor response was done by introduction of equilibrium polymers (EP) [1]. In suchsystems the polymerization takes place under condition of chemical equilibrium between the polymers and their respective monomers. An important example is that of living polymer brush (LPB) molecules forming flexible chains, which break and recombine constantly at random points alongthe chain during special polymerization techniques, so called living radical polymerization (LRP) [2]. In this work, the dynamics of in situ grown LPB between parallel plates is precisely examined, and the main important characteristic of LPB is presented.