A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Effect of polyelectrolyte multilayers on the response of a quartz crystal microbalance




AuthorsSalomaki M, Loikas K, Kankare J

PublisherAMER CHEMICAL SOC

Publication year2003

Journal:Analytical Chemistry

Journal name in sourceANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Journal acronymANAL CHEM

Volume75

Issue21

First page 5895

Last page5904

Number of pages10

ISSN0003-2700

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1021/ac034509z


Abstract
The effect of a polyelectrolyte (PE) multilayers made by a layer-by-layer technique on the response of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is studied by using novel mathematical methods based on the Mobius transformations and their matrix representations in the complex plane. In the first method, the basic properties of the Mobius transformation are used for obtaining the PE bilayer matrix from the QCM impedance measurements taken at four different numbers of layers. In the second method, nonlinear fitting with concomitant error estimation is used for obtaining the elements of the bilayer matrix. The methods are applied to a multilayer composed of 150 bilayers of poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) and poly(diallyldimethylammonium) chloride on a quartz crystal resonator. The structure of the system is discussed, and the bulk acoustic impedance and areal mass density of the bilayer are calculated from the layer matrix.



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