Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: Characterization, Modification and Applications

✍ Scribed by Manfred Stamm (auth.), Manfred Stamm (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Surfaces and interfaces of polymers play an important role in most of the application areas of polymers, e.g. moulds, foils, thin films, coatings, adhesive joints, blends, composites, biomaterials or applications in micro- and nanotechnology. Therefore it is very important to be able to characterize these surfaces and interfaces in detail. In Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces, experts provide concise explanations, with examples and illustrations, of the key techniques. In each case, after basic principles have been reviewed, applications of the experimental techniques are discussed and illustrated with specific examples. Scientists and engineers in research and development will benefit from an application-oriented book that helps them to find solutions to both fundamental and applied problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Polymer Surface and Interface Characterization Techniques....Pages 1-16
Structure Determination in Thin Film Geometry Using Grazing Incidence Small-Angle Scattering....Pages 17-46
Vibrational Spectroscopic and Optical Methods....Pages 47-70
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 71-89
Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry....Pages 91-102
Characterization of Polymer Surfaces by Wetting and Electrokinetic Measurements – Contact Angle, Interfacial Tension, Zeta Potential....Pages 103-138
Mechanical Properties of Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces....Pages 139-160
Interfaces Between Incompatible Polymers....Pages 161-182
Liquid–Liquid and Liquid–Vapor Interfaces in Polymeric Systems....Pages 183-202
Plasma Modification of Polymer Surfaces and Plasma Polymerization....Pages 203-214
Grafting on Solid Surfaces: “Grafting to” and “Grafting from” Methods....Pages 215-234
Surface Modification by Adsorption of Polymers and Surfactants....Pages 235-259
Nanostructures in Thin Films from Nanostructured Polymeric Templates: Self-Assembly....Pages 261-273
Influencing the Interface in Polymer Blends by Compatibilization with Block Copolymers....Pages 275-298
Interfacial Phenomena of Biomaterials....Pages 299-318
Plasma Modification of Polymer Surfaces and Plasma Polymerization....Pages e1-e2
Back Matter....Pages 319-324

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Analytical Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials