120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area Oral Presentation for Young Scholars in Polymer Chemistry
Room No. Room 302+303
Time FRI 14:30-:
Code POLY.O-1
Subject Metal-Catalyzed Functionalization of Polymer Surface for Microfluidic Applications
Authors chinnadurai satheeshkumar, Myungeun Seo*
Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract The chemical society has been witnessing great advances in functionalization and coupling of organic molecules by using transition metal catalysts in recent years. However, application of such well-developed catalysts in other areas such as polymer chemistry have been relatively scarce despite of huge potential of functionalizing and modifying existing polymers in a tailor-made fashion. Particularly, delicate functionalization of polymer surface using metal catalysts is expected to be highly efficient and beneficial. Here we show such functionalization is possible for parylene, which is chemical vapor-deposited poly(p-xylylene) as a high-performance polymer coating with many superior properties used from satellites in outer space to implantabale medical devices and microfluidic devices. We will discuss development of reaction routes based on solution reaction results and characterization of functionalized parylene surface using a variety of analytical techniques. Finally, we will demonstrate use of the functionalized parylene surface for microfluidic applications.
E-mail vcsatheeshkumar@gmail.com