New publication on tailor-made polymer multilayers
Advanced Functional Materials has now published our work on the generation of tailor-made polymer multilayers via thermally reactive polymers. Monolithic surface architectures are generated via C,H insertion reactions.
From the abstract: Polymer multilayers are generated in a layer-by-layer fashion using polymers with sulfonyl-azide groups. Upon thermal activation C–H insertion reactions cause the polymers to crosslink and attach to the respective substrate. Through step-and-repeat procedures, multilayer assemblies are generated where all layers are covalently linked. The assembly process does not require any specific molecular interactions and thus represents a general strategy to generate tailor-made multilayer coatings.
Example of a polymer multilayer prepared by a sequential deposition and crosslinking of seven different polymers: