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New Monomers Tailored for Direct Electrografting onto Carbon in Water
Author(s) -
Cécius Michaël,
Jérôme Robert,
Jérôme Christine
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200600882
Subject(s) - monomer , anhydrous , materials science , chemical engineering , coating , contact angle , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , amphiphile , carbon fibers , grafting , polymer chemistry , polymer , copolymer , organic chemistry , composite material , chemistry , composite number , engineering
Electrografting, which is an electropolymerization technique dedicated to the chemisorption of polyacrylates onto conductive surfaces, was actively studied in anhydrous organic media until now. This communication aims at extending this technique to aqueous media for the grafting of polyacrylates onto carbon. The key criterion for the successful electrografting under these not very demanding experimental conditions (water vs. anhydrous organic solvents) is the use of amphiphilic acrylic monomers. The impact of the chemical structure of these new monomers on the coating properties was investigated. Composition of the coatings was analyzed by FT‐IR ATR and XPS, whereas film thickness and morphology were analyzed by ellipsometry and AFM, respectively.