Abstract
The system of two polymer brushes in a near-critical binary mixture of good and poor solvents is studied within the framework of the Alexander-de Gennes model. When the brushes do not overlap, the problem is shown to be analogous to the system of two hard walls in a near critical binary mixture. As in the two-wall case, it is found that the disjoining pressure between the brushes is negative. This attractive interaction, which arises from the preferential attraction of the good solvent to the brushes, has a range comparable to the correlation length of the mixture. When the brushes do overlap, the interaction between the brushes is repulsive. This leads to a minimum in the disjoining pressure at contact
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