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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2011
Applicant:
Vladimir K. Dioumaev, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vladimir K. Dioumaev, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kovio, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G 77/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods are disclosed for making crosslinked polysilanes and polygermanes, preferably having either hydrogen or halogen substituent groups. These crosslinked polymers are prepared by catalytic polymerization such as the dehalogenative coupling or dehydrocoupling. The crosslinked polymers having no more than 10% of the chain atoms involved in crosslinking. Also disclosed are compositions containing these crosslinked polymers in a solvent to enable the composition to be deposited on a substrate using a liquid deposition technique.