Volume 139, Issue 30 e52677
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Surface engineering of Si wafers with tunable surface morphology and stiffness via visible light induced thiol-ene click polymerization with 4-(N,N-diphenylamino)benzaldehyde as an organocatalyst

Yiran Wang

Yiran Wang

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Qingyu Liao

Qingyu Liao

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Yuqing Fan

Yuqing Fan

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Dong Chen

Dong Chen

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Yuhong Ma

Corresponding Author

Yuhong Ma

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Yuhong Ma and Wantai Yang, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.

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Changwen Zhao

Changwen Zhao

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Wantai Yang

Corresponding Author

Wantai Yang

Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

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Yuhong Ma and Wantai Yang, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Syntheses and Applications of Waterborne Polymers College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.

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First published: 30 May 2022

Funding information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 51773014

Abstract

A facile strategy is developed to fabricate a two-layer grafted polymer coatings on silicon wafers, specifically soft crosslinked polythioether as middle damping layer and stiff poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as top protecting layer. At first, a highly crosslinked polythioether layer was constructed on the surface of the silicon wafer with tunable thickness and smooth morphology with trimethylolpropane tris(2-mercaptoacetate) and pentaerythritol triallyl ether as monomers and 4-(N,N-diphenyl-amino)benzaldehyde as an organocatalyst. The Young's modulus of the grafted crosslinked polythioether layer is about 300–400 MPa and the roughness is about 11.3 nm measured by atomic force microscope. There are about 9000 ea reactive –SH in a cuboid cell with 1 nm2 base area and 7–14 μm height in the grafted crosslinked polythiolether layer. Then, a flatten PMMA coating layer with Young's modulus as high as ~2.4 GPa was grafted from/onto the surface of the crosslinked polythiolether with surface –SH groups as initiating or chain transfer sites.

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