Journal
DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 7-13Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2013.03.001
Keywords
DLC; Gas barrier; Polymer; Organosilane interlayer; Surface treatment
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, and Technology in Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [23360294, 21226006, 24656395]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21226006, 24656395, 23360294] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A new surface modification method by DLC coating with organosilane interlayer was introduced. Some DLC-coated polypropylene (PP) films pretreated with certain types of organosilane interlayers showed marked improvement in the gas barrier property. Among the DLC-coated PP, the PP films modified by organosilane interlayers with an amino group presented an extremely low oxygen transmission rate, which was even comparable to the existing low oxygen transmission rate of commercial DLC-coated PET with very high gas-barrier property. The barrier improvement factor (BIF) of DLC-coated PP by the amino-organosilane interlayer became approximately 300 times higher than that of the untreated neat PP. By observing the DLC surface, it was considered that such gas barrier improvement occurred due to the establishment of flawless DLC on PP with few cracks. In addition, DLC which was deposited onto the organosilane interlayer showed higher sp(3)/sp(2) ratio than an ordinary DLC, indicating a fairly dense DLC structure synthesized on PP with the organosilane interlayer, which was revealed by XPS. Furthermore, the new surface-treatment method for DLC was extensively found to be applicable to several other types of polymers including polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS), and polylactide (PIA) which are all important polymeric materials for industry. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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