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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Films of copper(II) imidazolate, an aromatic, heterocyclic hydrocarbon polymer, have been synthesized in situ at room temperature on copper surfaces. The films were made using a copper(II) salt formed as a thin film on an metallic copper substrate with subsequent complexation and deprotonation of the imidazole molecule. The in-situ formed copper(II) imidazolate polymer films have been studied by elemental analyses, scanning electron microscopy, and x-ray photoelectron and Auger spectroscopy. The copper Auger parameter has been derived for the films.