Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 257, Issue 3, Pages 1112-1118Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.08.032
Keywords
Wood/polyethylene composites; Plasma; Surface treatment; Surface properties; Adhesion
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [DL09EB02-3]
- Postdoctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China [LBH-Q09175]
- Scientific Funds of Heilongjiang Province [QC2009C75]
- Northeast Forestry University [GRAM09]
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Wood/polyethylene (PE) composites are widely used in many fields for its excellent properties, but they are hard to adhere for the surface lacking of polarity. So low-pressure glow discharge of air plasma was used to improve the adhesion properties of wood/PE composites. The composites were treated by plasma under different discharge power. And the changes on the surface properties of the treated and untreated composites were studied by contact angle, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), atomic force microscope (AFM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The measurement showed that the contact angle decreased after plasma treatment, and the contact angle decreased gradually with the increasing of discharge power. The FTIR analysis results showed that the polar groups such as hydroxyl, carbonyl and carboxyl were formed on the surface of the composites treated under plasma. SEM and AFM results showed that the roughness of plasma treated samples increased. XPS analysis results indicated that the content of carbon element decreased while the content of oxygen element in the composition of wood/PE composites surface element increased and it reached a balance in a higher power, meanwhile a lot of carboxyl groups were formed. The newly formed polar groups are benefit for the adhesion of composites. The shear bonding strength test showed that the adhesion properties of wood/PE composites improved effectively after plasma treatment. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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