Electroless plating of honeycomb and pincushion polymer films prepared by self-organization.
This report describes the fabrication and electroless plating of regular porous and pincushion-like polymer structures prepared by self-organization. Honeycomb-patterned films were prepared by simple casting of polymer solution under applied humid air and pincushion structures by peeling off the top layer of the former films. Silver-deposited honeycomb-patterned films and pincushion films were obtained by simple electroless plating of the respective original structures. XPS revealed Ag deposition on the honeycomb-patterned film. After thermal decomposition or solvent elution of the template polymer, unique metal mesoscopic structures were obtained.
Yabu
Hiroshi
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Nanotechnology Research Center, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, N21W10, Sapporo, 001-0021, Japan. yabu@poly.es.hokudai.ac.jp
Hirai
Yuji
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Shimomura
Masatsugu
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