(8) Deposition of Inorganic Materials Using the Organic Surface as a Scaffold

To obtain organic-inorganic hybrid materials, control of interface between the organic and the inorganic phases is critically important. In the major cases, the surface of inorganic particles are modified by organic functional groups to make the particles miscible to the organic materials. The formation methods for organicinorganic hybrid materials according to this approach are widely investigated. Alternatively, there can be an approach that modifies the surface of organic phase to be compatible with inorganic phase. We have been investigating the formation of organic-inorganic hybrid materials via the latter approach. In this review, our resent results concerning the electrodeposition and electroless plating of inorganic materials onto the modified organic surfaces are shown. The electrodeposition of metal oxide onto the polymer particle adsorbed electrode revealed that the metal oxide deposition prefers the anionic polymer particle surface. Also, the electrodeposition of metal oxide onto the layer-by-layer（LbL）treated electrode showed that the charged surface can control the crystal orientation of the metal oxide and layered metal hydroxide. The LbL treatment can be applied to the metal electroless plating onto PET and PEN film. It revealed that the charge of the organic surface plays an important role to direct the selective nucleation onto the organic surface and thus obtained nuclear induces the formation of various inorganic materials.