Polymers electronic applications

C. P. Wong, Improved Eoom-Temperature Wulconicyed Silicone Elastomers as Integrated Circuit Encapsulants, Polymer Materials for Electronics Applications, American Chemical Society Symposium Series, Washington, D.C., Nos. 184, 171, 1982. 

Report 22 Electronics Applications of Polymers, M.T.Goosey, Plessey Research (Caswell) Ltd. 

Report 93 Advances in Thermoforming, J.L. Throne, Sherwood Technologies Inc. Report 120 Electronics Applications of Polymers II, M.T. Goosey, Shipley Ronal. 

Ruthenium-NHC complexes exhibit activity in a very wide field of applications. Due to their unique ability to break and reassemble olefin bonds under reaction conditions very favourable to design simple processes, applications in nearly any chemical discipline can be foreseen. This field may span from manufacturing of specialty polymers and rabbers to pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical intermediates, agrochemicals, fragrances, dyes, specialty chemicals for electronic applications or fine chemicals from natural feedstock and many more. Below are described Ru-NHC catalysed reactions applied from pilot to full commercial scale. 

Structure The polymers are produced as powders or as films on the electrodes. Most conductive polymers have a fibrous structure, each fiber consisting of hundreds of strands of polymer molecules. Techniques exist to control fiber preparation so as to obtain nanofibers expected to be particularly useful as catalyst substrates and in electronic applications (MacDiannid, 2000). 

Each spectroscopic technique (electronic, vibra-tional/rotational, resonance, etc.) has strengths and weaknesses, which determine its utility for studying polymer additives, either as pure materials or in polymers. The applicability depends on a variety of factors the identity of the particular additive(s) (known/unknown) the amount of sample available the analysis time desired the identity of the polymer matrix and the need for quantitation. The most relevant spectroscopic methods commonly used for studying polymers (excluding surfaces) are IR, Raman (vibrational), NMR, ESR (spin resonance), UV/VIS, fluorescence (electronic) and x-ray or electron scattering. 

Licari, J. J. 2003. Coating Materials for Electronic Applications Polymers, Processes, Reliability, Testing. Noyes Publications, William Andrew Publishing, New York. 

As already mentioned, unsubstituted PT is an insoluble and infusible material. Once the polymer is prepared, it is difficult (if not impossible) to further process it as a material for electronic applications. The solubility can be greatly enhanced by the introduction of side chains at position 3 (or at both, 3 and 4). The most widely studied side chains are n-alkyl substituents that can be easily introduced into the thiophene core by reaction of 3-bromothio-phene with alkyl-Grignard reagents [464]. 

S. Dailey, W.J. Feast, R.J. Peace, I.C. Sage, S. Till, and E.L. Wood, Synthesis and device characterization of side-chain polymer electron transport materials for organic semiconducting applications, J. Mater. Chem., 11 2238-2243, 2001. 

In the late 1970s, Kirchhoff at Dow Chemical Company developed the use of benzocyclobutenes in polymer synthesis and modification. These efforts culminated in 1985 with the issuance of the first patent describing the use of benzocyclobutene in the synthesis of high-molecular-weight polymer.27 Similar work that involved a thermosetting system based on Diels-Alder cycloaddition between terminal benzocyclobutene and alkyne groups,28,29 was reported separately and independently by Tan and Arnold.28 Since these initial discoveries, the field of benzocyclobutene polymers has expanded rapidly and benzocyclobutene chemistry constitutes the basis of a new and versatile approach to the synthesis of high-performance polymers for applications in the electronics and aerospace industries.30... 

Reichmanis,E. Wilkens,C.W. In Polymer Materials for Electronic Applications American Chemical Society Symposium Series Washington, DC, 1983 Vol.184, p.30. 

Electronics Applications of Polymers II, M.T. Goosey, Shipley Ronal. 

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