Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222111686
Keywords
poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate); MAPLE; chemical structure
Funding
- Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization [ctr 16N/2019]
- CCCDI-UEFISCDI within PNCDI III [PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0728, PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2020-0156/2021]
- Polish National Science Center [2019/03/X/ST8/01582]
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Through the MAPLE technique, coatings with various morphologies and topographies can be obtained by changing the process parameters. Chemical structure analysis reveals that the ester group in EVA coatings transforms into ketone and carboxyl groups, with some changes in the aliphatic main chain.
A series of coatings from poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) were obtained using the matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) technique. By changing the process parameters, i.e., laser fluence and EVA co-polymer concentration in the target, coatings with various morphologies and topographies were produced. The evaluation of the film structure was based on an analysis of optical and atomic force microscopy and profilometry measurements. A detailed chemical structure investigation, conducted based on Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectra, revealed that although the general structure was preserved, some alterations of ethylene (Et) and vinyl acetate (VAc) blocks took place. The most noticeable change was in the ester group that was transformed into ketone and carboxyl groups; nevertheless, some changes in the aliphatic main chain were also present. The chemical structure changes in EVA coatings took place regardless of the process parameters used. The use of chloroform as a solvent to dissolve the EVA copolymer was indicated as a possible reason of the changes as well as the tendency of EVA macromolecules to form clusters. Nevertheless, due to low level of structure alteration, it has been shown that the MAPLE technique can be successfully used to obtain coatings from polymers with more complex structures, which are soluble in a limited number of solvents.
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