| Abstract
| - An investigation of the kinetics of tethering of amine functional-ended polystyrene fromgood solvent to the surface of a solid substrate showed three distinct regimes of kinetics rather than thetwo predicted by theory. The first regime was fast and appeared to be controlled by diffusion through thesolvent, as predicted by theory. The second regime was slow and appeared to be linear in the naturallogarithm of time, as predicted by theory. The third regime, not predicted by theory, was one of acceleratedtethering (termed by us “layer-assisted tethering”). The third regime, observed for different solvents,different molecular weights, and different temperatures, ended when saturation was reached. We suggestherein an explanation for the observed acceleration.
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