Patent ID: 8227025

Claim:
A method of forming an electrically conductive polymer coating on a surface, comprising the steps of: contacting said surface with a gaseous metal-containing oxidant, thereby forming an oxidant-enriched surface; and contacting said oxidant-enriched surface with a gaseous polymerizable species, thereby forming an electrically conductive polymer coating on said surface, wherein said gaseous polymerizable species is selected from the group consisting of metal-organic compounds, pyridines, phenanthrolines, furans, heteroarenes with more than one ring heteroatom, oligomers of thiophenes, oligomers of pyrroles, oligomers of anilines, benzenoid arenes, and non-benzenoid aromatic compounds; wherein the surface has a first temperature at a first location, forming a coating with a first electrical conductivity at the first location, and wherein the surface has a second temperature at a second location, forming a coating with a second electrical conductivity at the second location.