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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Walter J. Dressick, Waldorf, MD (US);
Kathryn J. Wahl, Alexandria, VA (US);
Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Braga, PT;
Nabil D. Bassim, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Rhonda Michelle Stroud, Washington, DC (US);
Walter J. Dressick, Waldorf, MD (US);
Kathryn J. Wahl, Alexandria, VA (US);
Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Braga, PT;
Nabil D. Bassim, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Rhonda Michelle Stroud, Washington, DC (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method, and an article made therefrom, of: contacting a substrate with a first solution of a first polyelectrolyte polymer to form a layer of the first polyelectrolyte polymer on the substrate; and contacting the layer of the first polyelectrolyte polymer with a second solution of a second polyelectrolyte polymer to form a layer of the second polyelectrolyte polymer on the layer of the first polyelectrolyte polymer. The first polyelectrolyte is a polyanion or polycation polymer. The second polyelectrolyte is a polyanion or polycation polymer of a charge opposite to that of the first polyelectrolyte polymer. At least one of the first solution or the second solution is an aggregate-forming solution comprising an ionic species having at least two discrete sites of a charge opposite to that of the polyelectrolyte polymer in the aggregate-forming solution. The ionic species forms, via bridging interactions, aggregates of the polyelectrolyte polymer that remain intact in the aggregate-forming solution during the contact and layer formation.