Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion, Volume 4

✍ Scribed by Mittal, K.L.

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book documents the proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on this topic, held in Toronto. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1: Surface Modification Techniques; Part 2: Adhesion Improvement to Polymer Surfaces.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part 1. Surface Modification Techniques......Page 10
Importance of process conditions in polymer surface modification: A critical assessment by J. Grace, H. K. Zhuang and L. Gerenser......Page 12
Pretreatment and surface modification of polymers via atmospheric-pressure plasma jet treatment by U. Lommatzsch, M. Noeske, J. Degenhardt, T. Wübben, S. Strudthoff, G. Ellinghorst and O.-D. Hennemann......Page 34
The effects of excimer laser irradiation on surface morphology development in stretched poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(butylene terephthalate) and polystyrene films by J. Kim, D. U. Ahn and E. Sancaktar......Page 42
XeCl excimer laser treatment of Vectran® fibers in diethylenetriamine (DETA) environment by J. Zeng and A. N. Netravali......Page 96
Surface modification of polymers by ozone. Comparison of polyethylene and polystyrene treated at different temperatures by T. Kobayashi and H. Kumagai......Page 122
Atomic force microscopy based studies of photochemically-modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) surfaces by T. Bahners, K. Opwis, E. Schollmeyer, S.-L. Gao and E. Mäder......Page 136
Wool surface modification and its influence on related functional properties by P. Jovancic, R. Molina, E. Bertran, D. Jocic, M. R. Julia and P. Erra......Page 148
Surface modification of polyethylene by photosulfonation by S. Temmel, W. Kern and T. Luxbacher......Page 166
Covalent coupling of fluorophores to polymer surface-bonded functional groups by R. Mix, K. Hoffmann, U. Resch-Genger, R. Decker and J. F. Friedrich......Page 180
Functionalization of fiber surfaces by thin layers of chitosan and related carbohydrate biopolymers and their antimicrobial activity by D. Knittel and E. Schollmeyer......Page 202
Dendrons for surface modification of polymeric materials by H.-J. Buschmann and E. Schollmeyer......Page 218
Surface modification of textile materials by dip-coating with magnetic nanoparticles by J. Zorjanović, R. Zimehl, E. Schollmeyer, O. Petracic, W. Kleemann, D. Knittel, T. Textor and U. Schloßer......Page 228
Part 2. Adhesion Improvement to Polymer Surfaces......Page 238
Adhesion improvement of epoxy resist to a benzocyclobutene layer: Application to nanoimprint lithography by B. Viallet and E. Daran......Page 240
Improvement of adhesion between poly(tetrafluoroethylene) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) films by G. Bayram, G. Ozkoc and P. Kurkcu......Page 250
Novel approaches to enhance adhesion of cellulose by E. Delgado, J. A. Velásquez, G. G. Allan, A. Andrade, H. Contreras, H. Regla, L. R. Bravo and G. Toriz......Page 260
An in-mold application of adhesion promoters to polyolefin substrates by T. Schuman, M. Singh and J. Stoffer......Page 272
Design and control of surface properties of UV-curable acrylic systems by R. Bongiovanni and A. Priola......Page 294
Detection of contaminants on polymer surfaces using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) by S. Markus, U. Meyer, R. Wilken, S. Dieckhoff and O.-D. Hennemann......Page 306