Advanced Techniques for the Characterization of Surface Structure in Polymer Thin Films and Coatings

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• 作者：Michael D. Dimitriou (1)
  Edward J. Kramer (1)
  Craig J. Hawker (1) (2)
  
• 关键词：Coatings ; Thin films ; XPS ; NEXAFS
• 刊名：Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：January 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：39
• 期：1
• 页码：1-13
• 全文大小：1,539 KB
• 作者单位：Michael D. Dimitriou (1)
  Edward J. Kramer (1)
  Craig J. Hawker (1) (2)
  
  1. Materials Department and the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
  2. Center for Refining and Petrochemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
  

文摘

This review demonstrates the importance of advanced characterization techniques, such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray adsorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy, in accurately determining the composition/morphology of polymeric thin films. The ability to relate structure with surface properties has the potential to benefit a wide variety of science and engineering fields with direct application to the polymer coating, lithography and solar cell industries. Further advances in such areas will build on these characterization techniques and other microscopy, probe and scattering methods to allow real-time monitoring of the evolution of surface structure during processing and/or annealing. The ultimate goal of these methods is the accurate design of tunable, multifunctional surfaces.