Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 18, Pages 22634-22642Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c04534
Keywords
polydimethylsiloxane; monolayers; two-dimensional materials; polydiacetylene; surface chemistry; chemical patterning
Funding
- NSF [NSF-CHE-MSN 2108966]
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Most high-resolution interfacial patterning approaches are limited to crystalline inorganic interfaces. This study explores a method to generate high-resolution functional patterns on soft materials by photopolymerizing highly structured functional alkyldiacetylene patterns on a hard crystalline surface and then transferring them covalently to the soft material. The authors develop a probabilistic model to describe the polymerization and transfer process.
Most high-resolution interfacial patterning approaches are restricted to crystalline inorganic interfaces. Recently, we have shown that it is possible to generate 1 nm resolution functional patterns on soft materials, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), by creating highly structured striped patterns of functional alkyldiacetylenes on a hard crystalline surface, photopolymerizing to set the molecular pattern as a striped-phase polydiacetylene (sPDA), and then covalently transferring the sPDAs to PDMS. Transfer depends on the diacetylene polymerization, making it important to understand design principles for efficient sPDA polymerization and cross-linking to PDMS. Here, we combine single-molecule and fluorescence-based metrics for sPDA polymerization and transfer, first to characterize sPDA polymerization of amine striped phases, and then to develop a probabilistic model that describes the transfer process in terms of sPDA-PDMS cross-linking reaction efficiency and number of reactions required for transfer. We illustrate that transferred patterns of alkylamines can be used to direct both adsorption of CdSe nanocrystals with alkyl ligand shells and covalent reactions with fluorescent dyes, highlighting the utility of functional patterning of the PDMS surface.
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