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Surface Modification of Polystyrene with O Atoms Produced Downstream from an Ar/O2 Microwave Plasma

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العنوان: Surface Modification of Polystyrene with O Atoms Produced Downstream from an Ar/O2 Microwave Plasma
المؤلفون: Xinyun Li, Fei Lu, Matthew Cocca, Katerine Vega, Andrew Fleischer, Alla Bailey, Marc Toro, Shreen Sachdev, Thomas Debies, Michael Mehan, Surendra Gupta, Gerald Takacs
المصدر: Technologies; Volume 6; Issue 1; Pages: 21
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: polystyrene, microwave plasma of Ar/O 2, XPS, surface modification, AFM, water contact angle, hydrophilicity
الوصف: Because discarded polystyrene (PS) is little affected by degrading agents, PS was treated with a remote microwave (MW) plasma discharge of an Ar/O2 mixture in the absence of radiation to increase wettability and introduce functional groups which make the waste more liable to degradation and useful for technological applications. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) detected decreases in the aromatic sp2 and aliphatic sp3 carbons with treatment and, initially, increases in C–O and carbonyl groups, present in the formation of ethers, epoxides, alcohols, ketones and aldehydes. At longer treatment times, ester, O–C=O; carbonate-like, O–(C=O)–O; and anhydride, O=C–O–C=O; moieties are observed with an overall oxygen saturation level of 23.6 ± 0.9 at% O. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) measurements detected little change in surface roughness with treatment time. Advancing water contact angle decreased by ca. 50% compared to pristine PS indicating an increase in hydrophilicity because of oxidation. Washing the treated samples in deionized water decreased the oxygen concentrations at the saturation treatment times down to 18.6 ± 1 at% O due to the washing away of a weak boundary layer.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Innovations in Materials Processing; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/technologies6010021
DOI: 10.3390/technologies6010021
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies6010021
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.ECF5773C
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.3390/technologies6010021