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Drawing and Hydrophobicity-patterning Long Polydimethylsiloxane Silicone Filaments
Published on: January 7, 2019
Strong hydrophobizer: laterally chemisorbed low-molecular-weight polydimethylsiloxane
Soo Sang Chae1, Jin Young Oh, Jee Ho Park
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchong-dong, Seoul 120-750, Republic Korea. thinfilm@yonsei.ac.kr.
Abstract:
We introduce a siloxane chain-based hydrophobizer that exhibits superior thermal and chemical stability compared to the conventional hydrophobizing silane agent under conditions of over 300 °C and pH 2-13. To demonstrate the capability of the siloxane chain-based hydrophobizer to serve as a highly robust chemical surface modifier, we present two applications: the formation of fine metal nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution by thermal aggregation of a metal thin film and the selective deposition of a ruthenium thin film by atomic layer deposition.
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