Photoimageable Organic Coating Bearing Cyclic Dithiocarbonate for a Multifunctional Surface.

We report the fabrication of photocross-linkable and surface-functionalizable polymeric thin films using reactive cyclic dithiocarbonate (DTC)-containing copolymers. The chemical functionalities of these material surfaces were precisely defined with light illumination. The DTC copolymers, namely, poly(dithiocarbonate methylene methacrylate--alkyl methacrylate)s, were synthesized via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, and the reaction kinetics was thoroughly analyzed.