“…A highly branched poly(acrylic acid) film attached to a flat gold surface has been successfully applied to a number of technical applications including corrosion inhibition, chemical sensing, cellular engineering, and micrometer-scale patterning, due to an extremely high density of functional groups at the surface [107]. The surface chemistry and interfacial properties of hyperbranched polymers have also become fields of growing interest [2,[108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115]. Figure 14 summarizes hyperbranched, branched, and linear polymers grafted on surfaces.…”