Patent ID: 7558186

Claim:
A method, comprising: forming a layer of one or more polyaryletherketone polymers on a substrate; thermally curing said layer of one or more polyaryletherketone polymers to form a resin layer of polyaryletherketone resin, said polyaryletherketone resin cross-linked by cyclo-addition reactions of said phenylethynyl moieties; heating and bringing a thermo-mechanical device, when heated, into contact with said resin layer to write information into said resin layer by forming depressions in said resin layer; bringing said thermo-mechanical device, when unheated, into proximity to said resin layer to read information stored in said resin layer; heating and bringing said thermo-mechanical device, when heated, into proximity with said resin layer to erase information from said resin layer by reflowing said depressions; each polyaryletherketone polymer of said one or more polyaryletherketone polymers having two terminal ends, each terminal end having two or more phenylethynyl moieties; wherein said polyaryletherketone resin has a glass transition temperature of between about 100° C. and about 180° C.; wherein each polyaryletherketone polymer of said one or more polyaryletherketone polymers has the structure: wherein R 1 is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R 2 is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R 3 is selected from the group consisting of poly(arylacetylenes), poly(phenylethynyls), wherein n is a integer from about 5 to about 50; and wherein each of said one or more polyaryletherketone polymers has a molecular weight between about 3,000 Daltons and about 10,000 Daltons.