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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Mater. 2019 Nov 29;32(2):e1903285. doi: 10.1002/adma.201903285

Figure 1. Chemical structures of polymer brushes used for biomedical applications.

Figure 1.

A) General strategy for polymer brush growth from a surface. An ATRP initiator is attached to a substrate from which a polymer brush is grown by surface-initiated ATRP. B) Architecture of surface tethered polymer brush (left panel) and commonly used polymer backbones and side-chains used for polymer brush growth, including polymethacrylates and polyacrylates (middle panel). A set of neutral and zwitterionic monomers are also shown (right panel).