Photopolymerization of liquid carbon disulfide produces nanoscale polythiene films

PB Zmolek, H Sohn, PK Gantzel…

Index: Zmolek; Sohn; Gantzel; Trogler Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001 , vol. 123, # 6 p. 1199 - 1207

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Abstract

Broad band solar or 300-400 nm irradiation (Hg-Xe arc source) of liquid-phase carbon disulfide produces a new carbon-sulfur polymer with the approximate (n= 1.04-1.05) stoichiometry (CS n) x. The polymer, from here on called (CS) x, forms as a~ 200 nm thick transparent golden membrane as measured by SEM and AFM techniques. IR spectra for this polymer show some similarities with those obtained for the gas-phase photopolymerized ( ...