Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion, Volume 1

This book embodies the proceedings of the International Symposium on Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion, held in Las Vegas. The articles in this book were previously published in four special issues of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology. Polymeric materials are used for a legion of applications in a host of technological areas. However, polymers are innately hydrophobic, low surface energy materials and thus do not adhere well to other materials brought in contact. This necessitates their surface modification/treatment to render them adhesionable. The articles in this volume cover a wide array of surface modification techniques, ranging from simple to sophisticated, wet to dry, vacuum to nonvacuum for a host of polymeric materials. The topics covered include: plasma surface treatment of a number of polymers; laser surface treatment of various polymers; corona, flame, UV, ozone, UV/ozone, photochemical, photografting, chemical grafting, and chemical methods of polymer surface modification; modification of polyamide surfaces by microorganisms; effect of polymer surface modification on metal/polymer adhesion; barrier properties of surface treated polymers; ageing study of surface treated polymers; physico-chemical properties of surface-modified polymers; application of inverse gas chromatography in the characterization of polymers; and surface acoustic wave sensor to study polymer surface treatments.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Plasma surface modification techniques: plasma treatment of polydimethylsiloxane, M.J. Owen and P.J. Smith; atmospheric silent discharge versus low-pressure plasma treatment of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyisobutylene and polystyrene, O.D. Greenwood et al; hydrophobic recovery of repeatedly plasma-treated silicone rubber 1 - storage in air, E.P. Everaert et al; the improvement in adhesion of polyurethane-polypropylene composites by short-time exposure of polypropylene to low and atmospheric pressure plasmas, J.F. Friedrich et al; fluoropolymer surface modification for enhanced evaporated metal adhesion, M.K. Shi et al; plasma treatment of polymers - the effect of the plasma parameters on the chemical, physical and morphological states of the polymer surface and on the metal-polymer interface, M. Collaud et al; interfacial chemistry in A1 and Cu metallization of untreated and plasma treated polyethylene and polyethyleneterephthalate, A. Ringenbach et al; barrier properties of plasma-modified polypropylene and polyethyeleneterephthalate, J.F. Friedrich et al; surface biomedical effects of pl.sama on polyetherurethane, D. Li and J. Zhao. Part 2 Laser surface modification techniques: modification of polymers with UV excimer radiation from lasers and lamps, J.-Y. Zhang et al; photolytic surface modification of polymers with UV-laser radiation, J. Breuer et al; laser-induced adhesion enhancement of polymer composites and metal alloys, A. Buchman et al; excimer laser-induced photochemical modification and adhesion improvement of a fluororesin surface, M. Murahara and K. Toyoda; photochemical surface modification of polypropylene for adhesion enhancement by using exicmer laser, M. Murahara and M. Okoshi. Part 3 Other/miscellaneous surface modification techniques. (Part contents)