Issue 16, 2010

Smart polymer surfaces: mapping chemical landscapes on the nanometre scale

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Smart polymer surfaces: mapping chemical landscapes on the nanometre scale

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Mar 2010
Accepted
21 May 2010
First published
23 Jun 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 3764-3768

Smart polymer surfaces: mapping chemical landscapes on the nanometre scale

M. Filimon, I. Kopf, F. Ballout, D. A. Schmidt, E. Bründermann, J. Rühe, S. Santer and M. Havenith, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 3764 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00098A

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