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Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der Herstellung von programmierbaren, supramolekularen Multischichten und Komposit-Multischichten auf Gold- und Siliziumoberflächen durch Anwendung eines koordinationschemischen Schicht-auf-Schicht-Selbstorganisationsverfahrens und den damit verbundenen Synthesen, Beschichtungen und Analysen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, wurde zunächst eine Vielzahl von pyridin- und terpyridinterminierten selbstorganisierten Monoschichten (SAM) hergestellt und auf Gold- und Siliziumoberflächen abgeschieden. Die Abscheideprozedur wurde optimiert wobei zur Analytik der Oberflächen Röntgenphotoelektronenspektroskopie (XPS), winkelabhängiger kantennaher Röntgenabsorptionsfeinstrukturspektroskopie (NEXAFS-Spektroskopie), Flugzeit-Sekundärionen-Massenspektrometrie (ToF-SIMS), Transmissions-UV/Vis-Spektroskopie sowie Rasterkraftmikroskopie (AFM) eingesetzt wurde. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich hochgeordnete monomolekulare und gemischte Monoschichten erzeugen lassen. Die terminalen funktionellen Gruppen dieser SAMs konnten als Ligand zur Komplexbildung mit Übergangsmetallionen verwendet werden.
Diese koordinative Haftschicht wurde zur Verknüpfung zunächst von Testliganden und später von terpyridin-terminierten Tetralactam-Makrozyklen (TLM) und darauf basierenden Etherrotaxanen verwendet. Hierbei wurden ebenfalls die Beschichtungsbedingungen optimiert, um einen vollständigen Bedeckungsgrad zu erreichen. Unter Verwendung dieser Bedingungen wurden anschließend Multischichten aus TLMs und Fe(II)-Ionen sowie alternierend Fe(II) und Ni(II) abgeschieden. Die Analyse der hergestellten Multischichten zeigte reproduzierbar ein regelmäßiges, kontrollierbares Wachstum und eine Vorzugsorientierung. Durch den Einsatz von pyridin- und terpyridin-terminierten TLMs mit variierenden Metallionen konnte gezeigt werden, dass es möglich ist, die Abfolge verschiedener Schichten der Multischicht gezielt festzulegen.
Im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeit wurden pyridin-terminierte Goldnanopartikel hergestellt und in die Multischichten integriert, um so Komposit-Multischichten herzustellen. Letztlich konnte gezeigt werden, dass die erzeugten Multischichten genutzt werden können, um über nicht-kovalente Wechselwirkungen reversibel Gastmoleküle zu binden und freizusetzten.
Switchable Surfaces: Mono- and Multilayers of Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecules on Solid Supports
(2016)
Rotaxanes are mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) that are considered to be excellent prototypes for the development of molecular machines. They comprise a discrete number of molecules that are bound to each other via non-covalent interactions. Mechanically interlocked means that a covalent bond must be broken in order to separate the molecules from another. If the rotaxanes are furthermore provided with different binding sites, they can perform a con-formational change and thus a nanoscopic movement by the application of an external stimu-lus. However, this movement is not directed in solution and a macroscopic effect is therefore, if at all, very difficult to realize. The integration of rotaxanes into a reference system by, for example, the immobilization on a surface is regarded as a promising approach to convert the generated nanoscopic motion into a macroscopic effect.
The present work describes the immobilization of chloride-switchable rotaxanes onto surfaces using a variety of methods. In detail, the applied methods are the metal-mediated layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly and the covalent deposition using click chemistry, which can be con-sidered as separate approaches. Before the rotaxanes were immobilized, the deposition meth-ods were first established and gradually improved on the basis of earlier results by using dif-ferent macrocycle and guest molecules. Various template layers – so-called self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) – were used. These are terminated with pyridine or terpyridine for the metal-induced LbL deposition. Azide-terminated SAMs are used for the covalent deposition.
In the course of that, the following objectives were achieved: The deposition of diterpyridin functionalized macrocycles in multilayers with a preferential orientation was investigated and verified by transmission-UV/Vis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as well as near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS). In order to produce the multilayer, metal-ions and macrocycles were alternately deposited onto various SAMs. To enable further process control for the LbL deposition, Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) has been extended by use of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which is capable of analyzing even very small changes in the deposition procedure. By using two different macrocycles and four metals, a mixed multilayer was fabricated that can be programmed by its deposition sequence. The treatment of the multilayers with appropriate guest molecules showed that they are on one hand addressable to the lowest layer by an external stimulus and that they are on the other hand able to incorporate a relatively large amount of the guest. Additionally, the covalently deposited supramolecules are also able to bind guests and to adapt to their structures. In both cases, the reversibility could be shown by appropriate experiments. Finally, the introduction of pyridine-functionalized nanoparticles into the multilayers led to a higher guest uptake, which can be explained by the reduction of the macrocycle-order due to the uneven surface of the nanoparticles.
The use of duplex stainless steels (DSS) in energy related applications is well known. Nowadays, DSS steels become more favorable than austenitic steels due to the outstanding mechanical properties, the good corrosion resistance and the lower nickel content. However, the use of the duplex grade in acidic environments such as seawater often leads to severe degradation of the structural integrity of the steel by hydrogen-induced/assisted cracking (HAC) phenomena, which can eventually result in premature failure. Hydrogen assisted degradation and cracking of steels are active fields of research even though this topic is intensively studied for more than a century. A bottleneck is the analytical validation of the theoretical models proposed ion the literature at the sub-micron scale.
Industrial and the research communities see a need for an accurate analytical method by which it is possible to image the distribution of hydrogen in the microstructure of a steels or and other alloys. Among the very few available methods hydrogen imaging methods, Time-of-Flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) has the principal capability for mapping of hydrogen in a steel’s microstructure. The combination of ToF-SIMS with multivariate data analysis (MVA), electron microscopy (SEM) and electron-backscattered diffraction (EBSD) is a powerful approach for providing chemical and structural information. The use of data fusion techniques has been shown recently to enhance the better understanding of the hydrogen induced degradation processes in in a DSS steel.
In recent years, the fabrication of laser-generated surface structures on metals such as titanium surfaces have gained remarkable interests, being technologically relevant for applications in optics, medicine, fluid transport, tribology, and wetting of surfaces.
The morphology of these structures, and so their chemistry, is influenced by the different laser processing parameters such as the laser fluence, wavelength, pulse repetition rate, laser light polarization type and direction, angle of incidence, and the effective number of laser pulses per beam spot area.
However, the characterization of the different surface structures can be difficult because of constraints regarding the analytical information from both depth and the topographic artifacts which may limit the lateral and depth resolution of elemental distributions as well as their proper quantification. A promising technique to investigate these structures even at the nano-scale is Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), a very surface sensitive technique that at the same time allows to perform depth-profiling, imaging and 3D-reconstruction of selected ion-sputter fragment distributions on the surface.
In this study we combine chemical analyses such as Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses with ToF-SIMS to fully characterize the evolution of various types of laser-generated micro- and nanostructures formed on Ti and Ti alloys at different laser fluence levels, effective number of pulses and at different pulse repetition rates (1 – 400 kHz), following irradiation by near-infrared ultrashort laser pulses (925 fs, 1030 nm) in air environment or under argon gas flow.
We show how this combined surface analytical approach allows to evaluate alteration in the surface chemistry of the laser-generated surface structures depending on the laser processing parameters and the ambient environment.