Surface Modification of Polymers Through Plasma

Document Type : compile

Authors

1 Graduate student of Yazd University

2 Academic member

Abstract

Generally, polymer surface engineering has vast applications in biotechnology,
membranes, self-cleaning and electronic devices. These applications are based on
controllable changing in some properties such as surface energy, surface topography, and
biocompatibility of polymer. For choosing a proper method for the surface modification
of polymer, three parameters should be considered carefully. These parameters include:
chemical structure of polymer which is focused on strengths and weaknesses of demanded
polymer, the surface properties that we need to achieve after treatment and finally surface
geometry which is related to the presence or absence of porosity and or chemical and
physical heterogeneity of polymer surface. This research investigates the popular surface
modification methods like wet chemistry, flame, plasma, UV radiation, laser and grafting.
Furthermore, for accurate understanding of quantitative and qualitative changes of surface
properties of polymers, the general characteristics of used methods (depth analyzed,
resolution, and analytical sensitivity) were briefly mentioned. Some of the popular
methods for include contact angle measurement, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
(FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), Auger
electron spectroscopy (AES) and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).

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