Comparison of aluminum and sodium doped poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymers by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy

Authors

• B. Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Jaewu Choi, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• C.N. Borca, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Peter A. Dowben, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• A.V. Sorokin, Ivanova State University
• S.P. Palto, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
• N.N. Petukhova, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
• S.G. Yudin, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-22-2001

Comments

Published Applied Physics Letters 78 (2001) 448-450. Permission to use.

Abstract

The chemical interaction between the simple metals, aluminum and sodium, and crystalline copolymer thin films of vinylidene fluoride (70%) with trifluoroethylene (30%), has been studied using x-ray photoemission spectroscopy. Aluminum and sodium metalize the polymer differently and different binding sites for the two metals can be inferred from the corresponding core level shifts. Aluminum leads to enhanced screening of final photoemission states associated with the polymer, while sodium doping strongly influences the fluorine, but perturbs the carbon backbone only slightly. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1340858]