Filtern
Dokumenttyp
Schlagworte
- Plasma modification (2)
- Adhesion promoting interlayers (1)
- Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transorm infrared spectroscopy (1)
- Chemical conversion of functional groups (1)
- Chemical reduction of functional groups (1)
- Copolymers (1)
- Metal-polymer interactions (1)
- Metal-polymer systems (1)
- Oxygen low-pressure plasma treatment of polymers (1)
- PET (1)
- Peel strength (1)
- Plasma (1)
- Plasma polymers with functional groups (1)
- Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (1)
- Polyethylene (1)
- Polypropylene (1)
- Spacers (1)
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (1)
- r.f. pulsed plasma (1)
Polymer surfaces can be finished with functional groups upon exposure to a plasma. Species of the plasma gas are attached at surface carbon atoms, forming functional groups of different composition. To produce a modified polymer surface with a high density and homogeneity of hydroxyl groups only, the oxygen-plasma-formed oxygen functional groups were chemically reduced by diborane and LiAlH4 with yields of 10 to 11 OH groups per 100 carbon atoms in the 3 to 5 nm near-surface layer as detected by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The identification of hydroxyl groups was performed by means of attenuated total reflectanceFourier transform infrared spectroscopy and XPS.