Reversibly switchable primers

US6478912B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Hermann Gaub · Jessenitz Siedlung, DE
• Andreas Mittelbach · Unterhaching, DE
• Peter Jaenker · Garching bei München, DE
• Felix Nitschke · Munich, DE
• Ulrich Schubert · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 22, 2001
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/31678
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A ligand layer on a metal surface is capable of being reversibly switched between adhesion and deadhesion. The ligand layer includes substituted pyridine dimers and/or pyridine trimers which are selected from the group consisting of: with R1 through R6 being able to be equal or different and being selected from the group consisting of —R—CH(O)CH2, OH, —O—R, NR2, NHR, NH2, CO2H, CO2R, R and H. R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl and aryl residues with the proviso that not all residues R1 through R6 are hydrogen atoms at the same time. R7 is selected from the group consisting of —R—CH(O)CH2, OH, —O—R, NR2, NHR, NH2, CO2H, CO2R, CONHR, R and H, with R being selected from the group consisting of alkyl and aryl residues. Y is selected from the group consisting of silicon, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen atoms, and X is an oxygen, sulfur or phosphorus atom, and n having the value 0 or 1.