Wear protection without surface modification using a synergistic mixture of molecular brushes and linear polymers
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18 avril 2018
- handle: 10670/1.0du67g
- doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07678
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Jimmy Faivre et al., « Wear protection without surface modification using a synergistic mixture of molecular brushes and linear polymers », Papyrus : le dépôt institutionnel de l'Université de Montréal, ID : 10.1021/acsnano.6b07678
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We describe the design of lubricating and wear protecting fluids based on mixtures of bottlebrushes (BB) and linear polymers solutions. To illustrate this concept we used hyaluronic acid (HA) - a naturally occurring linear polyelectrolyte, and a water soluble synthetic BB polymer. Individually, these two polymers exhibit poor wear protecting capabilities compared to saline solutions. Mixture of the two polymers in pure water or in saline allows to drastically increase wear protection of surfaces over a wide range of shearing conditions. We demonstrate that this synergy between the BB and HA polymers emerges from a strong cohesion between the two components forming the boundary film due to entanglements between both polymers. We show that this concept can be applied to other types of linear polymers and surfaces and is independent of the chemical and mechanical properties of the surfaces.