Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites from Si-Based Substrates: Applications of Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

摘要

This contribution outlines four different ROMP-based (ROMP = ring-opening metathesis polymerization) approaches to prepare polymer overlayers possessing either hydroxyl or carboxylic acid functionalities on oxidized silicon surface or silica (SiO_2) nanoparticles. The morphology, elemental composition, and properties of these polymer overlayers can be characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ellipsometry, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).