Polymers plasma surface modification

M. Strobel, C. S. Lyons, and K L. Mittal, eds., Plasma Surface Modification of Polymers Relevance to Adhesion, Coronet Books, Philadelphia, Pa., 1994. 

Exposing a polymer surface to various kinds of plasmas can modify polymer surfaces. Plasmas of argon, oxygen, hydrogen, and air are frequently used in plasma surface modification of polymers. Plasmas of non-polymer-forming gases are used in... 

The same principle applies to plasma surface modification. It is generally observed that O2 plasma treatment of a polymer surface dramatically increases the adhesion of paint applied on the treated surface. Flowever, the adhesion thus created... 

Yasuda, T. Okuno, T. Miyama, M. Yasuda, H. Penetration of plasma surface modification. I. Cf4 and C2F4 glow discharge plasmas. J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem. 1994, 32, 1829. 

Loh IH, Lin HL, Chu CC. Plasma surface modification of synthetic absorbable sutures. In Proceedings, Clemson University Conference on Medical Textiles and Biomedical Polymers and Materials 1996. 

Liston EM, Martinu L, Wotheimer MR (1997) Plasma surface modification of polymers for improved adhesion a taitical review. Plasma surface modification of polymers relevance to adhesion. VSP, Boston... 

F Ponan-Epaillard and B Chevet, J C BrossE, Plasma Surface Modification of Polymers Relevance to Adhesion, edited by M strobel, C S Lyons and K L Mttal, VSP BV., Netherlands, 1994. 

Akovali, G., Rzaev, Z. M. O., and Mamedov, D. G. 19%. Plasma surface modification of propylene-based polymers by silicon and tin-containing compounds. 

Morent, R, De Geyter, N., Desmet T., Dubruel, P, and Leys, C. (2011) Plasma surface modification of biodegradable polymers a review. Plasma Process. Polym., 8 (3), 171-190. 

It has been demonstrated that the preparation of superhydrophobic polymer surfaces is possible by simple plasma surface modification, either in one or two-step processes. The O2 plasma induces a variable roughness while CF4 plasma increases the roughness and creates an apolar layer. By the two-step treatment, several plasma parameters were found which allowed the preparation of superhydrophobic surfaces with controlled roughness and chemical structure. It has been shown that a superhydrophobic surface can be obtained even with a low roughness, around 20 nm. 

Following two multicomponent-multiphase polymer systems (with and without plasma surface modification) will be presented ... 

Oehr, C., 2003. Plasma surface modification of polymers for biomedical use. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 208, 40—47. 

Jacobs T, Morent R, De Geyter N, Dubmel P, Leys C. Plasma surface modification of biomedical polymers influence on cell-material interaction. Plasma Chem Plasma Process. 2012 32 1039-73. 

In this regard, plasma treatment is an effective and economical tool in the field of surface modification, which may be used quickly, easily and it does not require relatively expensive devices for its operation. The primary effect of plasma treatment is to convey reactivity to the treated surfaces via electrons, ions and UV-radiation confining the treatment to the top layer without affecting bulk properties. For these reason, plasma surface modification has been done on different materials, such as polymers, carbon fibres, ceramics, and proteins [7-9]. 

I. Armentano, G. Ciapetti, M. Pennacchi, M. Dottori, V. Devescovi, D. Granchi, N. Baldini, B. Olalde, M.J. Jurado, and J.I.M. Alava, Role of PLLA plasma surface modification in the interaction with human marrow stromal cells, J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 114, 3602-11, 2009. 

Plasma polymerization process is a technique that allows us to obtain highly crosslinked polymers from nonfunctional monomers that are not utilized in conventional polymer synthesis. Plasma surface modification can improve biocompatibility and biofunctionality. 

M Morra, E Occhiello, F Garbassi. In JJ Pireaux, P Bertrand, JL Bredas, eds. Polymer Plasma Surface Modifications. Bristol lOP Publishing, 1992, pp 407-427. 

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