Role of Free Radicals in Luminous Chemical Vapor Deposition

ROLE OF FREE RADICALS IN LUMINOUS CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION 

In the chain growth free radical polymerization of a vinyl monomer (conventional polymerization), the growth reaction is the repeated reaction of a free radical with numbers of monomer molecules. According to the termination by recombination of growing chains, 2 free radicals and 1000 monomer molecules leads to a polymer with the degree of polymerization of 1000. In contrast to this situation, the growth and deposition mechanisms of plasma polymerization as well as of parylene polymerization could be represented by recombinations of 1000 free radicals (some of them are diradicals) to form the three-dimensional network deposit via 1000 kinetic 

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