Molecular ordering of phenyl groups at the buried polystyrene/metal interface

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 9418-9422

  Lu, Xiaolin ^a   Myers, John N ^b   Chen, Zhan ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MICROELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYSTYRENES; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANTI-CORROSION COATING; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; INTERFACIAL MOLECULAR STRUCTURES; MICRO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES; MOLECULAR ORDERING; POLYMER/METAL INTERFACES; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIES; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

POLYMERS;

ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILVER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYSTYRENES; SILVER;

EID: 84905973997     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la502037h     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Feast, W. J.; Munro, H. S.; Richards, R. W. Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces II; John Wiley and Sons: New York, 1992.
2. Carbassi, F.; Morra, M.; Occhiellp, E. Polymer Surfaces, From Physics to Technology; John Wiley and Sons: Chichester, U.K., 1994; p 1.
3. Jones, R. A. L.; Richards, R. W. Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 1999.
4. Jones, R. L.; Kumar, S. K.; Ho, D. L.; Briber, R. M.; Russell, T. P. Chain Conformation in Ultrathin Polymer Films Nature 1999, 400, 146-149
5. Priestley, R. D.; Ellison, C. J.; Broadbelt, L. J.; Torkelson, J. M. Structural Relaxation of Polymer Glasses at Surfaces, Interfaces, and In Between Science 2005, 309, 456-459
6. Mayes, A. M. Glass Transition of Amorphous Polymer Surfaces Macromolecules 1994, 27, 3114-3115
7. Tanaka, K.; Jiang, X.; Nkamura, K.; Takahara, A.; Kajiyama, T. Surface Molecular Aggregation Structure and Surface Molecular Motions of High-Molecular-Weight Polystyrene/Low-Molecular-Weight Poly(methyl methacrylate) Blend Films Macromolecules 1998, 31, 863-869
8. Kweskin, S. J.; Komvopoulos, K.; Somorjai, G. A. Entropically Mediated Polyolefin Blend Segregation at Buried Sapphire and Air Interfaces Investigated by Infrared-Visible Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. B 2005, 109, 23415-23418
9. Kurth, D. G.; Broeker, G. K.; Kubiak, C. P.; Bein, T. Surface Attachment and Stability of Cross-Linked Poly(ethylenimine)-Epoxy Networks on Gold Chem. Mater. 1994, 6, 2143-2150
10. Kim, D. H.; Jo, W. H. Studies on polymer-metal interfaces: Part 1. Comparison of adsorption behavior between oxygen and nitrogen functionality in model copolymers onto metal surfaces Polymer 1999, 40, 3989-3994
11. Xiang, Y.; Li, T.; Suo, Z.; Vlassak, J. J. High ductility of a metal film adherent on a polymer substrate Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 87, 161910
12. Hunt, J. H.; Guyot-Sionnest, P.; Shen, Y. R. Observation of C-H stretch vibrations of monolayers of molecules optical sum-frequency generation Chem. Phys. Lett. 1987, 133, 189-192
13. Guyot-Sionnest, P.; Hunt, J. H.; Shen, Y. R. Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of a Langmuir film: Study of molecular orientation of a two-dimensional system Phys. Rev. Lett. 1987, 59, 1597-1600
14. Gautam, K. S.; Schwab, A. D.; Dhinojwala, A.; Zhang, D.; Dougal, S. M.; Yeganeh, M. S. Molecular Structure of Polystyrene at Air/Polymer and Solid/Polymer Interface Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 85, 3854-3857
15. Wilson, P. T.; Briggman, K. A.; Wallace, W. E.; Stephenson, J. C.; Richter, L. J. Selective study of polymer/dielectric interfaces with vibrationally resonant sum frequency generation via thin-film interference Appl. Phys. Lett. 2002, 80, 3084-3086
16. Wilson, P. T.; Richter, L. J.; Wallace, W. E.; Briggman, K. A.; Stephenson, J. C. Correlation of molecular orientation with adhesion at polystyrene/solid interfaces Chem. Phys. Lett. 2002, 363, 161-168
17. Kweskin, S. J.; Komvopoulos, K.; Somorjai, G. A. Molecular restructuring at poly(n-butyl methacrylate) and poly(methyl methacrylate) surfaces due to compression by a sapphire prism studied by infrared-visible sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy Langmuir 2005, 21, 3647-3652
18. Gautam, K. S.; Dhinojwala, A. Melting at Alkyl Side Chain Comb Polymer Interfaces Phys. Rev. Lett. 2002, 88, 145501
19. Kristalyn, C. B.; Lu, X.; Weinman, C. J.; Ober, C. K.; Kramer, E. J.; Chen, Z. Surface Structures of an Amphiphilic Tri-Block Copolymer in Air and in Water Probed Using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Langmuir 2010, 26, 11337-11343
20. Lu, X.; Shephard, N.; Han, J.; Xue, G.; Chen, Z. Probing Molecular Structures of Polymer/Metal Interfaces by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Macromolecules 2008, 41, 8770-8777
21. Lu, X.; Li, D.; Kristalyn, C. B.; Han, J.; Shephard, N.; Rhodes, S.; Xue, G.; Chen, Z. Directly Probing Molecular Ordering at the Buried Polymer/Metal Interface Macromolecules 2009, 42, 9052-9057
22. Lu, X.; Xue, G.; Wang, X.; Han, J.; Han, X.; Hankett, J.; Li, D.; Chen, Z. Directly Probing Molecular Ordering at the Buried Polymer/Metal Interface 2: Using P-Polarized Input Beams Macromolecules 2012, 45, 6087-6094
23. Fang, Y.; Li, B.; Yu, J.; Zhou, J.; Xu, X.; Shao, W.; Lu, X. Probing surface and interfacial molecular structures of a rubbery adhesion promoter using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy Surf. Sci. 2013, 615, 26-32
24. Ye, H.; Abu-Akeel, A.; Huang, J.; Katz, H. E.; Gracias, D. H. Probing Organic Field Effect Transistors In Situ during Operation Using SFG J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 6528-6529
25. Li, Q.; Hua, R.; Chou, K. C. Electronic and Conformational Properties of the Conjugated Polymer MEH-PPV at a Buried Film/Solid Interface Investigated by Two-Dimensional IR-Visible Sum Frequency Generation J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 2315-2318
26. Liebsch, A. Theory of sum frequency generation from metal surfaces Appl. Phys. B: Lasers Opt. 1999, 68, 301-304
27. Zhuang, X.; Miranda, P. B.; Kim, D.; Shen, Y. R. Mapping molecular orientation and conformation at interfaces by surface nonlinear optics Phys. Rev. B 1999, 59, 12632-12640
28. Wei, X.; Zhuang, X.; Hong, S. C.; Goto, T.; Shen, Y. R. Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of a Rubbed Polymer Surface Phys. Rev. Lett. 1999, 82, 4256-4259
29. Varsanyi, G. Vibrational Spectra of Benzene Derivatives; Academic Press: New York, 1969.
30. Varsanyi, G. Assignments for Vibrational Spectra of Seven Hundred Benzene Derivatives; Halsted Press: New York, 1974; Vol. 1.
31. Sears, W. M.; Hunt, J. L.; Stevens, J. R. Raman scattering from polymerizing styrene. I. Vibrational mode analysis J. Chem. Phys. 1981, 75, 1589-1598
32. Wang, J.; Chen, C.; Buck, S. M.; Chen, Z. Molecular Chemical Structure on Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) Surface Studied bySum Frequency Generation (SFG) Vibrational Spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 12118-12125
33. Lu, X.; Clarke, M. L.; Li, D.; Wang, X.; Xue, G.; Chen, Z. A Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Study of the InterferenceEffect in Poly(n-butyl methacrylate) Thin Films Sandwiched between Silica and Water J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 13759-13767
34. Simpson, G. J.; Rowlen, L. K. An SHG Magic Angle: Dependence of Second Harmonic Generation Orientation Measurements on the Width of the Orientation Distribution J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 2635-2636
35. Ward, R. N.; Davies, P. B.; Bain, C. D. Orientation of surfactants adsorbed on a hydrophobic surface J. Phys. Chem. 1993, 97, 7141-7143