PMID- 15206842 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040827 LR - 20161013 IS - 0003-4592 (Print) IS - 0003-4592 (Linking) VI - 94 IP - 3 DP - 2004 Mar TI - Analytical characterization of poly(pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid) films electrosynthesised on Pt, Ti and Ti/Al/V substrates. PG - 207-18 AB - With the aim of developing a polymeric multilayer film for application in advanced biomaterials, as a first step poly(pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid) films (abbreviated as PPy-3-carbox) were electropolymerised from pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid solutions by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry on platinum, titanium and Ti90Al6V4 substrates and characterised both electrochemically (cyclic voltammetry) and spectroscopically (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, XPS). Electrochemical experiments showed that the potential range adopted for electropolymerization affects the polymer electroactivity, by analogy with unsubstituted polypyrrole. The combination of conventional and chemical derivation-XPS provided information on PPy-3-carbox surface structure, showing no significant difference between films grown on different substrates and an increase of the COOH groups amount (one group over three pyrrole rings, as an average) with respect to unsubstituted polypyrrole (PPy), as expected. Finally, a preliminary Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) investigation was performed in order to get further information on the polymer structure and electroactivity. FAU - De Giglio, Elvira AU - De Giglio E AD - Universita degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Chimica, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. e.degiglio@chimica.uniba.it FAU - Losito, Ilario AU - Losito I FAU - Dagostino, Francesco AU - Dagostino F FAU - Sabbatini, Luigia AU - Sabbatini L FAU - Zambonin, Pier Giorgio AU - Zambonin PG FAU - Torrisi, Alberto AU - Torrisi A FAU - Licciardello, Antonino AU - Licciardello A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Italy TA - Ann Chim JT - Annali di chimica JID - 7610375 RN - 0 (Biocompatible Materials) RN - 0 (Carboxylic Acids) RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Pyrroles) RN - 0 (poly(pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid)) RN - 49DFR088MY (Platinum) RN - D1JT611TNE (Titanium) SB - IM MH - *Biocompatible Materials MH - Carboxylic Acids/*chemistry MH - Electrochemistry MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - Platinum/chemistry MH - Polymers/*chemistry MH - Pyrroles/*chemistry MH - Titanium/chemistry EDAT- 2004/06/23 05:00 MHDA- 2004/08/28 05:00 CRDT- 2004/06/23 05:00 PHST- 2004/06/23 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/08/28 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/06/23 05:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/adic.200490024 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Ann Chim. 2004 Mar;94(3):207-18. doi: 10.1002/adic.200490024.