TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhanced mechanical properties of biomedical poly(ethylene terephthalate) surface modified by acetylene plasma immersion ion implantation-deposition
AU - Wang, J.
AU - Leng, Y. X.
AU - Chen, J. Y.
AU - Wan, G. J.
AU - Yang, P.
AU - Sun, H.
AU - Huang, N.
AU - Chu, P. K.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Plasma immersion ion implantation-deposition (PIII-D) as an innovative and hybrid technique has been applied for surface modification of polymeric materials, Our recent work on acetylene (C2H2) plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and Si (100) wafers which are placed on PET films to make the same electric contact as the PET samples reveals some encouraging results in terms of significantly increased surface hardness, elastic modulus as well as surface wettability. Further investigation shows that the improvement in mechanical properties of modified surface following C2H2 PIII-D modification generally increases with bias voltage. The elastic modulus and hardness of films deposited on Si wafers increase from 73.75 GPa and 5367.52 MPa to 123.51 GPa and 13223.02 Mpa when bias voltage increases from -5KV to -15KV. The change of surface structure may account for the improved mechanical properties. The structure analysis of Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveal the formation of thin hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films with different structures and chemical bonds on the PET surface. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) shows that the reduced average surface roughness (Ra) decreases from 33.1 nm to 11.4 nm by C2H2 PIII-D. The wettability of the films is investigated by contact angle measurement. DLC deposited on PET shows water contact angle of 64.8° compared with 83.5° of the untreated PET. This reveals the increasing wettability of polymer surface by using C2H2 PIIID. This research shows PIIID exhibits a great potential for improving the surface mechanical properties of biomedical polymers.
AB - Plasma immersion ion implantation-deposition (PIII-D) as an innovative and hybrid technique has been applied for surface modification of polymeric materials, Our recent work on acetylene (C2H2) plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and Si (100) wafers which are placed on PET films to make the same electric contact as the PET samples reveals some encouraging results in terms of significantly increased surface hardness, elastic modulus as well as surface wettability. Further investigation shows that the improvement in mechanical properties of modified surface following C2H2 PIII-D modification generally increases with bias voltage. The elastic modulus and hardness of films deposited on Si wafers increase from 73.75 GPa and 5367.52 MPa to 123.51 GPa and 13223.02 Mpa when bias voltage increases from -5KV to -15KV. The change of surface structure may account for the improved mechanical properties. The structure analysis of Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) reveal the formation of thin hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films with different structures and chemical bonds on the PET surface. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) shows that the reduced average surface roughness (Ra) decreases from 33.1 nm to 11.4 nm by C2H2 PIII-D. The wettability of the films is investigated by contact angle measurement. DLC deposited on PET shows water contact angle of 64.8° compared with 83.5° of the untreated PET. This reveals the increasing wettability of polymer surface by using C2H2 PIIID. This research shows PIIID exhibits a great potential for improving the surface mechanical properties of biomedical polymers.
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U2 - 10.1109/PLASMA.2004.1339973
DO - 10.1109/PLASMA.2004.1339973
M3 - RGC 22 - Publication in policy or professional journal
SN - 0730-9244
JO - IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science
JF - IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science
M1 - 4P47
T2 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS2004)
Y2 - 28 June 2004 through 1 July 2004
ER -