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Smart polymer surfaces: mapping chemical landscapes on the nanometre scale
Filimon, Marlena; Kopf, Ilona; Erik, Bründermann et al.
2010In Soft Matter, p. 3764-3768
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Keywords :
smart surfaces; near-field infrared Microscopy; chemical mapping
Abstract :
[en] We show that Scattering Infrared Near-field Microscopy (SNIM) allows chemical mapping of polymer monolayers that can serve as designed nanostructured surfaces with specific surface chemistry properties on a nm scale. Using s-SNIM a minimum volume of 100 nm × 100 nm × 15 nm is sufficient for a recording of a “chemical” IR signature which corresponds to an enhancement of at least four orders of magnitudes compared to conventional FT-IR microscopy. We could prove that even in cases where it is essentially difficult to distinguish between distinct polymer compositions based solely on topography, nanophase separated polymers can be clearly distinguished according to their characteristic near-field IR response.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Filimon, Marlena ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Kopf, Ilona;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II
Erik, Bründermann
Havenith, Maritina;  Ruhr-Universität Bochum - RUB > Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II
Language :
English
Title :
Smart polymer surfaces: mapping chemical landscapes on the nanometre scale
Publication date :
23 June 2010
Journal title :
Soft Matter
Pages :
3764-3768
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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