Three different low-temperature plasma-based methods for hydrophilicity improvement of polyethylene films at atmospheric pressure

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/11/115206

Abstract Three different low-temperature plasma-based methods were used to improve the surface hydrophilicity of polyethylene (PE) films, and all the modification processes were carried out by employing an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) system. (a) PE films were directly modified by APPJ using a gas mixture of He and O₂. (b) Acrylic acid (AA) was introduced into the system and a polymer acrylic acid (PAA) coating was deposited onto the PE films. (c) AA was grafted onto the PE surface activated by plasma pre-treatment. It was found that the hydrophilicity of the PE films was significantly improved for all the three methods. However, the samples modified by Process (a) showed hydrophobicity recovery after a storage time of 20 days while no significant change was found in samples modified by Process (b) and Process (c). The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) results indicated that the most intensive C=O peak was detected on the PE surface modified by Process (c). According to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, the ratios of oxygen-containing polar groups for samples modified by Process (b) and Process (c) were higher than that modified by Process (a).

Keywords: atmospheric pressure plasma jet plasma modification acrylic acid hydrophilicity improvement

Received: 01 August 2013
Revised: 05 September 2013
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PACS:	52.75.-d	(Plasma devices)
	52.70.-m	(Plasma diagnostic techniques and instrumentation)
	52.77.Fv	(High-pressure, high-current plasmas)
	52.77.-j	(Plasma applications)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175157), the Zhejiang Provincial Key Innovation Team, China (Grant No. 2012R10038), and the 521 Talent Project of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China.

Corresponding Authors: Chen Guang-Liang
E-mail: glchen1975@gmail.com

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Chen Guang-Liang (陈光良), Zheng Xu (郑旭), Huang Jun (黄俊), Si Xiao-Lei (司晓蕾), Chen Zhi-Li (陈致力), Xue Fei (薛飞), Sylvain Massey Three different low-temperature plasma-based methods for hydrophilicity improvement of polyethylene films at atmospheric pressure 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 115206

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