Fig. 9From: A brief review of recent developments in the designs that prevent bio-fouling on silicon and silicon-based materialsreproduced with permission from ACS PublicationsSynthesis of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polystyrene (PS) with two hydrophobic polymer blocks between PMMA and PS (PS-b-PSBMAm) on SiOx surface via surface-initiated atom-transfer radical polymerization. CMPS refers to (p-Chloromethyl)phenyl-trichlorosilane), and SBMAm indicates sulfobetaine methacrylamide [73]Back to article page