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Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes
In this study we investigated the influence of an organic polystyrene brush on the deposition of ZnO thin films under moderate conditions. On a non-modified SiO(x) surface, island growth is observed, whereas the polymer brush induces homogeneous film growth. A chemical modification of the polystyren...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26925358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.12 |
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author | Blumenstein, Nina J Hofmeister, Caroline G Lindemann, Peter Huang, Cheng Baier, Johannes Leineweber, Andreas Walheim, Stefan Wöll, Christof Schimmel, Thomas Bill, Joachim |
author_facet | Blumenstein, Nina J Hofmeister, Caroline G Lindemann, Peter Huang, Cheng Baier, Johannes Leineweber, Andreas Walheim, Stefan Wöll, Christof Schimmel, Thomas Bill, Joachim |
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description | In this study we investigated the influence of an organic polystyrene brush on the deposition of ZnO thin films under moderate conditions. On a non-modified SiO(x) surface, island growth is observed, whereas the polymer brush induces homogeneous film growth. A chemical modification of the polystyrene brushes during the mineralization process occurs, which enables stronger interaction between the then polar template and polar ZnO crystallites in solution. This may lead to oriented attachment of the crystallites so that the observed (002) texture arises. Characterization of the templates and the resulting ZnO films were performed with ζ-potential and contact angle measurements as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Infrared spectroscopy (IR) measurements were used to investigate the polystyrene brushes before and after modification. |
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spelling | pubmed-47344202016-02-26 Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes Blumenstein, Nina J Hofmeister, Caroline G Lindemann, Peter Huang, Cheng Baier, Johannes Leineweber, Andreas Walheim, Stefan Wöll, Christof Schimmel, Thomas Bill, Joachim Beilstein J Nanotechnol Full Research Paper In this study we investigated the influence of an organic polystyrene brush on the deposition of ZnO thin films under moderate conditions. On a non-modified SiO(x) surface, island growth is observed, whereas the polymer brush induces homogeneous film growth. A chemical modification of the polystyrene brushes during the mineralization process occurs, which enables stronger interaction between the then polar template and polar ZnO crystallites in solution. This may lead to oriented attachment of the crystallites so that the observed (002) texture arises. Characterization of the templates and the resulting ZnO films were performed with ζ-potential and contact angle measurements as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Infrared spectroscopy (IR) measurements were used to investigate the polystyrene brushes before and after modification. Beilstein-Institut 2016-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4734420/ /pubmed/26925358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.12 Text en Copyright © 2016, Blumenstein et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/termsThis is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The license is subject to the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology terms and conditions: (https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/terms) |
spellingShingle | Full Research Paper Blumenstein, Nina J Hofmeister, Caroline G Lindemann, Peter Huang, Cheng Baier, Johannes Leineweber, Andreas Walheim, Stefan Wöll, Christof Schimmel, Thomas Bill, Joachim Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title | Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title_full | Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title_fullStr | Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title_full_unstemmed | Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title_short | Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
title_sort | chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes |
topic | Full Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26925358 http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.12 |
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