Non‐Covalent Polymer Surface Modification of Cellulose Nanocrystals Using Block Copolymers

Inspired by nature, tunable wettability has attracted a lot of attention in both academia and industry. Various methods of polymer surface tailoring have been studied to control the changes in wetting behavior. Polymers with a precisely controlled wetting behavior in a specific environment are blessed with a wealth of opportunities and potential applications exploitable in biomaterial engineering. Controlled wetting behavior can be obtained by combining surface chemistry and morphology. Plasma assisted polymer surface modification technique has played a significant part to control surface chemistry and morphology, thus improving the surface wetting properties of polymers in many applications. This review focuses on plasma polymerization and investigations regarding surface chemistry, surface wettability and coating kinetics, as well as coating stability. We begin with a brief overview of plasma polymerization; this includes growth mechanisms of plasma polymerization and influence of plasma parameters. Next, surface wettability and theoretical background structures and chemistry of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces are discussed. In this review, a summary is made of recent work on tunable wettability by tailoring surface chemistry with physical appearance (i.e. substrate texture). The formation of smart polymer coatings, which adjust their surface wettability according to outside environment, including, pH, light, electric field and temperature, is also discussed. Finally, the applications of tunable wettability and pH responsiveness of polymer coatings in real life are addressed. This review should be of interest to plasma surface science communality particularly focused controlled wettability of smart polymer surfaces.

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Low pressure plasma-based approaches to fluorocarbon polymer surface modification

Journal of Applied Polymer Science ◽

10.1002/app.24717 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 103 (1) ◽

pp. 100-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

M. Nitschke ◽

U. König ◽

U. Lappan ◽

S. Minko ◽

F. Simon ◽

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Keyword(s):

Surface Modification ◽

Polymer Surface ◽

Low Pressure ◽

Pressure Plasma ◽

Low Pressure Plasma ◽

Polymer Surface Modification ◽

Fluorocarbon Polymer

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Review of Polymer Surface Modification Method

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.852.626 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 852 ◽

pp. 626-631 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Li Yuan Yu ◽

Bo Zhu ◽

Xun Cai ◽

Yong Wei Wang ◽

Rong Huan Han ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Surface Modification ◽

Polymer Surface ◽

Processing Method ◽

Surface Grafting ◽

Atomic Force Microscopy Probe ◽

Force Microscopy ◽

Atomic Force ◽

Irradiation Treatment ◽

Modification Method ◽

Polymer Surface Modification

This paper reviewed a variety of methods of polymer surface modification, which mainly includes Solution processing method, Plasma treatment，Surface grafting method，Irradiation treatment and method of Atomic force microscopy probe shock , and the specific polymer material combined with the modification method and its modification mechanism was introduced in detail.Polymer has very extensive application both in chemical fields and in daily life, but due to its poor surface hydrophilicity and wear resistance, the further application of polymer materials were limited. In order to improve its surface properties, modification are needed on the surface of the polymer. Polymer surface modification means to operate on the surface of polymer within the scope of nanometer level, and give some new properties on material surface, such as hydrophilicity, scratch resistance, under the premise of without affecting the material ontic properties.There are many methods of polymer surface modification. This paper reviewed Solution processing method, Plasma treatment，Surface grafting method，Irradiation treatment and method of Atomic force microscopy probe shock . Different methods of modification combined with specific materials are introduced as follow.

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