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Fabricating Reactive Surfaces with Brush-like and Crosslinked Films of Azlactone-Functionalized Block Co-Polymers
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Redox-active, organometallic surface-relief gratings from azobenzene-containing polyferrocenylsilane block copolymers
Rumman Ahmed1, Arri Priimagi, Charl F J Faul
1School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|January 18, 2012
Abstract:
Organometallic gratings: the ionic self-assembly of metal-containing block-copolymer polyelectrolytes and azobenzene chromophores is exploited for the efficient production of stable photo-induced surface-relief gratings. We show that feature sizes can be tuned using simple redox chemistry, and that the chromophores can be removed during plasma treatment to yield ceramic-based optical materials.
