| AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Applied Surface Science | Tuesday Sessions |
| Session AS+BI-TuA |
| Session: | Challenges in the Characterization of Polymer/Organic/ Biological Systems |
| Presenter: | Han Zuilhof, Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| Authors: | R. Sen, Wageningen University, Netherlands J. Escorihuela, Wageningen University, Netherlands H. Zuilhof, Wageningen University, Netherlands |
| Correspondent: | Click to Email |
Ultrathin coatings like self-assembled monolayers and polymer brushes have been used for a wide variety of studies and applications. Reactions within such monolayers or brushes are often difficult to follow, and their rates are typically not measurable: apart from a handful of cases in which electrochemical methods have been used, no rigorously measured kinetics on reactions within e.g. self-assembled monolayers are available. The current presentation will outline a generic approach, combining ambient mass spectrometry and XPS, to fill this gap, and provide a truly generic method to measure the rate of intramonolayer or intrapolymer organic reactions. Examples will include a variety of so-called click reactions, as these display a very high potential in materials science.