Mertz, Damien and Hemmerle, Joseph and Mutterer, Jerome and Ollivier, Sophie and Voegel, Jean-Claude and Schaaf, Pierre and Lavalle, Philippe (2007) Mechanically responding nanovalves based on polyelectrolyte multilayers. NANO LETTERS, 7 (3). pp. 657-662.
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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl062657%2B
Abstract
The alternate deposition of exponentially and linearly growing polyelectrolyte multilayers leads to the formation of multicompartment films. In this study, a new system consisting in nanometer-sized multilayer barriers deposited on or between multilayer compartments was designed to respond to mechanical stimuli and to act as nanovalves. The diffusion of polyelectrolytes through the barrier from one compartment to another can be switched on/off by tuning the mechanical stretching and thereby opening or closing nanopores in the barrier. This work represents a first step toward the design of chemically or biologically active films responding to mechanical stresses.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BY-LAYER DEPOSITION; EXPONENTIAL-GROWTH; THIN-FILMS; DELIVERY; TRANSPORT; MEMBRANES; COATINGS; BUILDUP; PROTEIN |
| Subjects: | Material Science > Functional and hybrid materials |
| ID Code: | 6216 |
| Deposited By: | IoN |
| Deposited On: | 08 Sep 2009 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2009 11:06 |
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