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AUTHOR
Lars Conrad
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Micro- and nanostructuring of oligo- and polythiophenes in two and three dimensions
2003
Abstract Oligothiophenes bearing methacrylic functionalities were two-dimensional-structured by stamping techniques. The localised monomer was hardened by radical polymerisation in UV light. The structures in micrometre- and nanometre-scale were characterised electrochemically by SECM. An inverse polymer opal with extremely high inner surface and periodicity was obtained by localising the photosensitive oligothiophene within an opal template of SiO 2 beads. Cyclic voltammetry of the oligothiophenes in aprotic solvents was carried out to examine possible electrochemical conversions. A self-assembling technique for lateral and vertical structuring of polythiophenes with pendant sulfonate and …
New Developments in Soft Lithography
2003
Abstract The burgeoning area of soft lithography is reviewed with special emphasis on developments within the past three years. Applications in electronics have driven such developments, but more recently, other kinds of device structures and 3D prototyping have also found application, in part, through soft lithography. Microcontact printing (μCP), “lift off” μCP nano transfer printing (nTP), micromolding in capillaries (MIMIC), solvent assisted micromolding (SAMIM), replica molding (REM), and microtransfer molding are the main soft lithography schemes discussed.
Polyelectrolytes on block copolymer surfaces
2004
Soft lithography and properties of amphiphilic block copolymers are combined in a new technique for the generation of patterned substrates, which can be used in different ways as templates for further processing. In these processing steps the deposition of polyelectrolytes, metals and grafting from polymerizations are used for the construction of different structures.
Temperature dependence of surface reorganization characteristics of amphiphilic block copolymer in air and in water studied by scanning force microsc…
2015
We have investigated the surface reorganization characteristics of a novel amphiphilic diblock copolymer, poly(acetic acid-2-(2-(4-vinyl-phenoxy)-ethoxy)-ethylester)-block-polystyrene (PAEES-b-PS), in response to varying interfaces from air to water and vice-versa at various temperatures. The surface reorganization characteristics of the block copolymer films was monitored by scanning force microscopy, in order to delineate the kinetically controlled morphological process of surface reorganization of a diblock copolymer, with a particular emphasis on the phase contrast signal which allowed the determination of local composition patterns of PAEES-b-PS at the surface. Upon heating a water-an…