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Published on: December 15, 2015
Permanent bubble arrays from a cross-linked poly(para-phenyleneethynylene): picoliter holes without microfabrication
Belma Erdogan1, Lulu Song, James N Wilson
1School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
Abstract:
An azide-substituted poly(para-phenyleneethynylene) (PPE) 4 was prepared by the Heck-Cassar-Sonogashira-Hagihara method. Thin films of 4 form self-assembled bubble arrays from carbon disulfide solution utilizing the breath figure method. The as-formed porous films of 4 are soluble in common solvents, and the air bubbles are interconnected. Upon heating to 300 degrees C, 4 cross-links and the thin film turn into insoluble matrix with isolated bubbles. The cross-linking process has transformed the bubble arrays of 4 into insoluble picoliter beakers or picoliter vials, whose diameters are approximately 3.0 and 1.5 mum at the top and bottom, respectively.
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