TY - JOUR A1 - Min, Hyegeun A1 - Wettmarshausen, Sascha A1 - Friedrich, Jörg Florian A1 - Unger, Wolfgang T1 - A ToF-SIMS study of the deuterium-hydrogen exchange induced by ammonia plasma treatment of polyolefins N2 - ToF-SIMS has been used to study the surface functionalization of polypropylene and polyethylene samples by exposure to low-pressure ammonia plasma. Static secondary ion mass spectrometry is an appropriate tool to determine hydrogen isotopes as elements and in fragment ions with high sensitivity and selectivity. Specifically the exchange of hydrogen isotopes and the incorporation of N-containing moieties in the near-surface layer of the polyolefins have been studied in ND3 plasma experiments with conventional polypropylene (h-PP) and polyethylene (h-PE) and NH3 plasma experiments with deuterated polyethylene (d-PE). Considering the exchange of hydrogen between the plasma and the polymer surface studied by using deuterated ammonia and polyolefin samples the conclusion has been derived that polypropylene with its side chain methyl groups is more susceptible to hydrogen exchange reactions. For ND3 plasma treatment of polyethylene and polypropylene similar N-containing fragments were obtained and the measured semi-quantitative ToF-SIMS N-uptake data are rather similar. The observation of a wide range of characteristic mixed CkNlHmDn+ secondary fragment ions suggests complex and manifold reaction pathways at the polymer–plasma interface besides simple grafting of –ND2 or –NH2 moieties formed by ammonia fragmentation in the plasma. Finally, indications of an isotopic effect for hydrogen isotopes in the plasma process have been observed by comparison of ND3/h-PE results with those of NH3/d-PE. KW - ToF-SIMS KW - Hydrogen-deuterium exchange KW - Ammonia plasma treatment KW - Amine-functionalized polymer KW - Polyolefins PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c1ja10043b SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 26 SP - 1157 EP - 1165 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-23754 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wettmarshausen, Sascha A1 - Min, Hyegeun A1 - Unger, Wolfgang A1 - Jäger, Christian A1 - Hidde, Gundula A1 - Friedrich, Jörg Florian T1 - Significance of hydrogen-deuterium exchange at polyolefin surfaces on exposure to ammonia low-pressure plasma N2 - Since more than 40 years ammonia plasma exposure of polyolefins is used for introduction of primary amino groups. The selectivity of this reaction and the yield in primary amino groups was found to be low. Here, a prominent side-reactions of this process was investigated, the hydrogenation by NH3 plasma. For identification of hydrogenation ammonia (NH3) and deuterated ammonia (ND3) were exposed to Polyethylene (h-PE) and fully deuterated polyethylene (d-PE) as well as hexatriacontane (h-HTC) and fully deuterated hexatriacontane (d-HTC) as low-molecular weight model for PE. H–D exchange was assumed and detected by Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF–SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR-FTIR) and 1H and 2H Nuclear magnetic Resonance. Results show a significant H–D exchange within the sampling depth of ATR (2.5 µm). However, N- and NH2 introduction was limited to the topmost surface as shown by SIMS and XPS (a few nanometers). KW - Deuterated ammonia KW - Ammonia plasma KW - Deuterated polyolefins KW - Hexatriacontane KW - H-D exchange PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-011-9304-5 SN - 0272-4324 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 551 EP - 572 PB - Plenum Publ. Corp. CY - New York, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-24178 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -