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Effects of Low Pressure and Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Treatment on Contact Angle of Polycarbonate Surface  

Won, Dong Su (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Kim, Tae Kyung (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Lee, Won Gyu (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.21, no.1, 2010 , pp. 98-103 More about this Journal
Abstract
The effect of plasma treatment on surface characteristics of polycarbonate (PC) films was investigated using low pressure plasma and atmospheric pressure plasma with oxygen and argon. Untreated PC has a contact angle of $82.31^{\circ}$ with de-ionized water which reduced to $9.17^{\circ}$ as the lowest value after being treated with a low pressure plasma treatment with oxygen. Increase of delivered powers such as RF and AC with a high frequency and gas flow rates was not effective to reduce contact angles dramatically but gave the trend of reducing gradually. The surface of PC treated with plasma shows a low contact angle but the contact angle increases rapidly according to the exposure time in air ambient. Oxygen plasma was more effective to generate the polar functional group regardless of the type of plasma. Conclusively, a low plasma treatment with oxygen is more recommendable when the hydrophilic surface of PC is required.
Keywords
polycarbonate; plasma treatment; surface modification; contact angle;
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