Journal
PLASMA CHEMISTRY AND PLASMA PROCESSING
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 651-666Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11090-015-9682-1
Keywords
Plasma polymer; Oxygen-rich; Nitrogen-rich; Surface charge; Functional groups
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Controlling the concentration and nature of functional groups in plasma polymer films by adjusting the flow ratio of constituent precursor gases can be exploited to tune the surface charge of the resulting coating. Plasma polymer films containing various concentrations of nitrogen and oxygen functional groups were deposited in a low-pressure capacitively-coupled glow discharge reactor by plasma polymerization of binary gas mixtures of a hydrocarbon (ethylene or butadiene) and a heteroatom source gas (ammonia and/or carbon dioxide). Increasing the flow ratio of heteroatom to hydrocarbon gases increased the concentration of bonded nitrogen or oxygen, including that of primary amine or carboxylic groups as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and chemical derivatization procedures. The zeta potential of samples was measured using an electro-kinetic analyser in a diluted sodium chloride solution. The deposition parameters controlled the composition of the coatings, allowing to tune the surface charge to either positive (ammonia based films)-or negatively (carbon dioxide base films) values at physiological pH.
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