Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces
Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 5th December 2005
- Speaker: Iris Coe (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Conducting polymers offer the optical, magnetic and electrical properties of metals whilst retaining the mechanical properties and processing advantages of polymers. Conducting polymer thin films and micropatterns are frequently used in commercial applications, such as microelectrode arrays in chemical sensing devices. However, the applications are limited due to lack of simple inexpensive methods to create reproducible micropatterns.
The indole 5 carboxylic acid asymmetric trimer was selected because it has a large conducting p backbone, it is inert and relatively soluble. Soft lithography techniques have been developed to create high quality reproducible indole microtracks of various dimensions of this molecule on functionalised glass surfaces.
This talk includes an introduction to conducting polymers and the indole 5 carboxylic acid trimer and a detailed discussion of the soft lithography techniques used, illustrated with various SEM images of the indole micropatterns formed using these techniques.
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