Polymer infiltration synthesis of inorganic nanoporous coatings: Does polymer template affect their properties?

Omotosho, Khalil; Tran, John; Shevchenko, Elena V.; Berman, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.129107

Polymer infiltration synthesis of inorganic nanoporous coatings: Does polymer template affect their properties?

Journal Article · Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Surface and Coatings Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.129107· OSTI ID:2433828

Omotosho, Khalil ^[1]; Tran, John ^[1]; Shevchenko, Elena V. ^[2]; Berman, Diana ^[1]

Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Synthesis of all-inorganic metal oxide architectures using polymer templates offers control over their thickness, porosity, and composition. Here, in this study, we provide insights into the synthesis of nanoporous zinc oxide films as a model system via infiltration of polymers that have different mechanisms of interaction with metal oxide precursors such as a polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-1) and representative of the block-copolymers family (polystyrene-polyvinyl pyridine block copolymer). We investigated polymer infiltration process with both gas (diethyl zinc, DEZ, and water vapors) and solution (zinc acetylacetonate, Zn(acac)₂, dissolved in ethanol) phase precursors. Using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses, we systematically studied the effect of polymer template and the form of the metal oxide precursors on the properties of synthesized metal oxide thin coatings. We demonstrate that the infiltration of polymer templates can be efficiently achieved using both gas phase and solution phase precursors. We show that the crystallinity of the synthesized 200 nm ZnO films is mainly affected by the state of the precursor (gas or solution phase) and does not depend on the polymer template type. In turn, the polymer type affects the surface termination of ZnO films. We demonstrate that the surface of porous ZnO coatings synthesized with BCP (here PS-P4VP) is more accessible than the surface of ZnO synthesized with PIM; however, despite the lower surface accessibility for ethanol molecules, ZnO synthesized via infiltration of PIM-1 with solution-phase precursors demonstrates the largest change in resistivity upon its exposure to ethanol vapor at room temperature.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2433828

Journal Information:: Surface and Coatings Technology, Journal Name: Surface and Coatings Technology Vol. 452; ISSN 0257-8972

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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