Year: 2013
Journal: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 793-800, 20130118
Authors: Veronica Mugnaini §a, Markos Paradinas a, Osama Shekhah {b, Nans Roques ka, Carmen Ocal a, Christof Wo ̈ll b and Jaume Veciana *a
Last authors: Jaume Veciana
Organizations: aInstitut de Ci`encia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus Universitari de la UAB, E-08193, Bellaterra, Spain. E-mail: vecianaj@icmab.es bInstitut fu ̈r Funktionelle Grenza ̈chen, Karlsruher Institut fu ̈r Technologie, Hermann- von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Description of scratching procedure, Tof-SIMS of PTMTC-copper polymer multilayer on a patterned surface; SPR and QCM-D proles recorded jointly during the step-by-step deposition of PTMTC and copper perchlorate under continuous ow conditions. See DOI: 10.1039/c2tc00037g ‡ Dedicated to Dr. Christian G. Claessens in his memory § Current address: Institut fu ̈r Funktionelle Grenz ̈achen, Karlsruher Institut fu ̈r Technologie, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein- Leopoldshafen, Germany. { Current address: 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. k Current address: LCC (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination), CNRS and Universit ́e de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, LCC, F-31077 Toulouse, France.
Country: Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, France
The step-by-step method is here presented as suitable to anchor on appropriately functionalized gold surfaces a metal–organic coordination polymer based on a non-planar trigonal tri-para-carboxy-polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical derivative and copper acetate. The structural characteristics of the grafted coordination polymer are derived during the step-wise growth from the real time changes in refractive index and oscillation frequency. The film thickness, as measured by scanning force microscopy, combined with the mass uptake value from the quartz crystal microbalance, are used to estimate an average density of the grafted metal–organic coordination polymer that suggests the formation of a dense and rather rigid thin film.
