Object comprising an ornament and thereon a monomolecular film

Claim 2

The object according to claim 1, wherein said fluorocarbon group containing monomolecular film is formed on said ornament substrate surface via a siloxane-based monomolecular film.

Claim 3

A method of forming the object according to claim 1, comprising washing the ornament and dipping the ornament in a solution obtained by dissolving a chlorosilane-based surface active material having a chlorosilane group at one end and a fluorocarbon straight chain group at the other end in an organic solvent, thereby forming a covalently bonded monomolecular film of said surface active material on the entire surface of the ornament.

Claim 4

The method according to claim 3, wherein said chlorosilane-based surface active material having a chlorosilane group at one end and a fluorocarbon straight chain group at the other end is represented by the general formula CF₃-(CF₂) m -R-SiX p Cl 3-p wherein m represents 0 or an integer, R represents an alkyl group, an alkylene group or an alkyne group or a substituted group containing a -Si- group or an oxygen atom, X represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group or a substituted group containing a -Si- group or an oxygen atom, and p represents 0, 1 or 2.

Claim 5

The method according to claim 3 or 4 further comprising washing the ornament, contacting the ornament with a non-aqueous solution containing an inner layer material having a plurality of chlorosilyl groups, thereby causing a reaction between hydroxyl groups at the surface of the ornament and chlorosilyl groups of said inner layer material having a plurality of chlorosilyl groups to precipitate said material on the surface of the ornament, removing an excess of said material from the ornament surface using a non-aqueous solution and reacting said inner layer material with water, prior to said dipping the ornament in said solution obtained by dissolving said surface active material having a chlorosilane group at one end and a straight chain fluorocarbon at the other end in an organic solvent, to form a laminated, covalently bonded monomolecular film on said ornament.

Claim 6

The method according to claim 5, wherein said inner layer material containing a plurality of chlorosilyl groups is selected from SiCl₄, SiHCl₃, SiH₂Cl₂, and Cl(SiCl₂O) n Cl₃, wherein n represents an integer from 1 to 20.

Claim 7

The method of claim 3, wherein said solution obtained by dissolving a chlorosilane-based surface active material in an organic solvent is a non-aqueous solution.

Claim 8

The method of claim 7, wherein said non-aqueous solution further contains a tertiary amine or cyclic ether.

Claim 9

The method of claim 5, wherein said inner layer material having a plurality of chlorosilyl groups is selected from dichlorosilane, trichlorosilane and tetrachlorosilane.

Claim 10

The method of claim 3, wherein said ornament is a polymer or has a polymer coating.