Physicochemical properties of a novel nitrogen-containing plasma-deposited ultrathin film

Abstract

Amphiphilic nitrogen-containing ultrathin films have been formed by brief plasmolysis of various kinds of nitrogen-containing organic compounds such as amino-, amido-, nitrile- and nitro-derivatives. Ultrathin films prepared from nitrogen-rich organic compounds, however, have been found to induce neither effective polymerization of vinyl monomers nor spin adduct formation of PBN, unlike those from non-nitrogen-containing organic compounds. Most of these films were very unstable in solvents, and the nitrogen-containing moiety in the resulting films was readily leached out of the film into either polar or non-polar solvents.