Polymer film-metal composites

• Main Authors: MALIC, Lidija, ZHANG, Xuefeng, MORTON, Keith, VERES, Teodor
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.05.2020
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; METALLURGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS; PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS; WORKING-UP

The present application relates to polymer film-metal composites, to methods of preparing polymer film-metal composites and to uses of such composites. The metal can be in the form of a nanoparticle or a film. The methods comprise depositing on a surface, a composition comprising: a cationic metal precursor; a polymer film precursor that comprises a plurality of photopolymerizable groups; and a photoreducer-photoinitiator; then irradiating the composition under conditions to simultaneously reduce the cationic metal and polymerize the photopolymerizable groups to obtain the composite on the surface.