Conformal Electroplating of Azobenzene-Based Solar Thermal Fuels onto Large-Area and Fiber Geometries

摘要: There is tremendous growth in fields where small functional molecules and colloidal nanomaterials are integrated into thin films for solid-state device applications. Many of these materials synthesized solution there often exists a significant barrier to transition them the solid state an efficient manner. Here, we develop methodology employing electrodepositable copolymer consisting applications solar energy harvesting storage. We employ azobenzene thermal fuel polymers functionalize enable deposition from low concentration solutions methanol, resulting uniform large-area films. This approach enables conformal on variety conducting substrates that can be either flat or structured depending application. Our further control over film via electrodepsition conditions results highly hundreds nanometers microns thickness. demonstrat...