Patent ID: 8491772

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a substrate having a surface; providing a plurality of elongated electrical conductors each having a first end and a second end; bonding each of said first ends to said surface so that said second ends are disposed away from said surface; forming a dielectric coating on said elongated electrical conductors, said dielectric coating comprising an organic polymeric material that is capable of transporting electrons in a reversible manner; conditioning at least one surface of said organic polymeric material comprising supplying electrons to redox sites of said organic polymeric material by contacting said least one surface with an organic chemical reducing agent whereby an organic anion thereof is energetically disposed to transferring electron(s) to said redox sites in said organic polymeric material; forming a coating of an electrically conductive material on said dielectric coating by contacting the conditioned organic polymeric material with a solution that contains cations of a metal which will penetrate said organic polymeric material and contact the redox sites, thereby transferring electrons to the cations that are energetically disposed to receiving electrons from said redox sites to thereby reduce the cations to metal atoms in the zero oxidation state; and then depositing a metal from an electroless bath onto the zero oxidation metal.