Iron(III) Chloride, toluene and Poly (styrene-b-acrylic acid)

[Mary Tang]

Hi all --

It may not look like it, but he's making iron nanoparticles (or at 
least, Fe-loaded polystyrene spheres.)  My suggestion is that we do not 
allow this into the headway or laurell, but allow this in the solvent 
bench in the wafersaw room.  I noticed that the stainless top is now in 
place there -- can we put Mahnaz' old laurell spin coater there now?

Mary

Xi Steven Liu wrote:

> Dear SpecMat Committee,
>
> This is the request for bringing in my own chemicals into cleanroom 
> for spin casting (Au contaminated).
> My coral name: xliu9
> my PI: Alan Cassell from NASA Ames research center
> email: xliu9 at ucsc.edu
> The chemicals:
> Poly(styrene-b-acrylic acid) from polymersource, 
> Inc.(www.polymersource.com)
> Iron(III) chloride from Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigmaaldrich.com)
> Toluene from Sigma-Aldrich(www.sigmaaldrich.com)
>  
> Please see the attached process.
> ~140mg poly(styrene-b-acrylic acid) is added in 10-15ml toluene, then 
> ~20mg FeCl3 is added in the polymer solution. Finally, the iron loaded 
> solution is stored into a 20 ml vial. All the processes are prepared 
> outside of cleanroom. I will bring this vial loaded solution in 
> cleanroon for spin casting on Si.For each casted substrate, I only 
> need 20ul of the solution.
> I will not store the solution in SNF.
>
> Thank you
>
> Xi Liu (Steven), Ph.D.
> NASA Ames Research Center
> Office Phone 408-7021002x26
> Fax: 408-7021003



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Mary X. Tang, Ph.D.
Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
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Stanford, CA  94305
(650)723-9980
mtang at stanford.edu
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