Methods of making polymer films
AssigneesLubris LLC, Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Wollongong
InventorsGeorge Warren Greene, IV, Pauline Emilienne Desroches, Saimon Moraes Silva, Simon Edward Moulton, Anita Frances Quigley, Robert Michail Ivan Kapsa
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Abstract
Disclosed herein, in part, are nanometers-thin and uniformly thick polymer films comprising an electrochemically polymerized polymer and a polyelectrolyte. Methods of preparing said nanometers-thin and uniformly thick polymer films are also provided.
Claims46
A polymer film comprising an electrochemically polymerized polymer, wherein the polymer film has a thickness of less than or equal to about 100 nm and a root mean square (RMS) surface roughness of less than or equal to about 5 nm.
A polymer film comprising an electrochemically polymerized polymer;
- and a polyelectrolyte, wherein the polymer film has a thickness of less than or equal to about 100 nm and/or a root mean square (RMS) surface roughness of less than or equal to about 5 nm.
A composite polymer film comprising a first electrochemically polymerized polymer and a second electrochemically polymerized polymer, wherein the first electrochemically polymerized polymer and the second electrochemically polymerized polymer are interpenetrating and continuous, and the polymer film has a thickness of less than or equal to about 100 nm and/or a root mean square (RMS) surface roughness of less than or equal to about 5 nm.
A method of preparing a polymer film comprising:
- (a) contacting a solution comprising a plurality of one or more electrochemically polymerizable monomers with a monolayer of a polyelectrolyte coated on a substrate;
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- (b) applying one or more cycling voltammetry (CV) cycles to the solution to form the polymer film.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.