Journal article
Assembly of Organic Monolayers on Polydicyclopentadiene
Langmuir, Vol.24(18), pp.10480-10487
09/16/2008
DOI: 10.1021/la8015782
PMID: 18686977
Abstract
The first well-defined organic monolayers assembled on polydicyclopentadiene is reported. Commercial grade dicyclopentadiene was polymerized with the Grubbs' second-generation catalyst in a fume hood under ambient conditions at very low monomer to catalyst loadings of 20 000 to 1. This simple method resulted in a polymer that was a hard solid and appeared slightly yellow. Brief exposures of a few seconds of this polymer to Br2 lead to a surface with approximately half of the olefins brominated as shown by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and attenuated total reflection-infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy. The ATR-IR spectroscopy was carried out with the polymer in contact with a Ge hemisphere housed in a GATR accessory from Harrick. This brominated polydicyclopentadiene was immersed in DMF with 4-(trifluoromethyl) benzylamine to assemble a monolayer. The amines displaced Br on the surface to form a monolayer that exposed a CF3 group on the surface. The surface was extensively studied by XPS using the method described by Tougaard to find the distribution of F within the surface layer. The ratio for the peak area, Ap, to the background height, B, measured 30 eV below the peak maximum was 109.8 eV. This value clearly indicated that F was found only at the surface and was not found within the polymer. A surface coverage of 1.37 amines per nm 2 was estimated and indicated that the monolayer was 28% as dense as a similar monolayer assembled from thiols on gold. Finally, a simple method to pattern these monolayers using soft lithography is described. This work is critically important because it reports the first monolayers on a relatively new and emerging polymer that has many desirable physical characteristics such as high hardness, chemical stability, and ease of forming different shapes. © 2008 American Chemical Society.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assembly of Organic Monolayers on Polydicyclopentadiene
- Creators
- Mathew Perring - University of Iowa, Department of Chemistry, Iowa City, Iowa 52242Ned B Bowden - University of Iowa, Department of Chemistry, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Langmuir, Vol.24(18), pp.10480-10487
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- DOI
- 10.1021/la8015782
- PMID
- 18686977
- ISSN
- 0743-7463
- eISSN
- 1520-5827
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/16/2008
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984216670702771
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