title: Mechanochemical activation and patterning of an adhesive surface toward nanoparticle deposition.
abstract: Mechanical pulling of adhesive tape creates radicals on the tape's surface. These radicals are capable of reducing metal salts to the corresponding metal nanoparticles. In this way, the mechanically activated tape can be decorated with various types of nanoparticles, including Au, Ag, Pd, or Cu. While retaining their mechanical properties and remaining "sticky," the tapes can exhibit new properties derived from the presence of metal nanoparticles (e.g., bacteriostaticity, increased electrical conductivity). They can also be patterned with nanoparticles only at selective locations of mechanical activation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
authors.forename: H Tarik
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Baytekin
authors.forename: Bilge
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baytekin
authors.forename: Sabil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huda
authors.forename: Zelal
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yavuz
authors.forename: Bartosz A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Grzybowski
mesh_terms: D000268:Adhesiveness; D000327:Adsorption; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties