scholarly journals The Effect of Hydroxyl on the Superhydrophobicity of Dodecyl Methacrylate (LMA) Coated Fabrics through Simple Dipping-Plasma Crosslinked Method

Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1263
Author(s):  
Liyun Xu ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Ying Guo ◽  
Ruiyun Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Shi ◽  
...  

In order to obtain stable superhydrophobicity, suitable hydrophobic treatment agents should be selected according to different material properties. In this paper, cotton and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fabrics were respectively coated with dodecyl methacrylate (LMA) via argon combined capacitively coupled plasma (CCP), and the surface hydrophobicity and durability of the treated cotton and polyester fabrics are also discussed. An interesting phenomenon happened, whereby the LMA-coated cotton fabric (Cotton-g-LMA) had better water repelling and mechanical durability properties than LMA-coated PET fabric (PET-g-LMA), and LMA-coated hydroxyl-grafted PET fabrics (PET fabrics were successively coated with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and LMA, PET-g-PEG & LMA) had a similar performance to cotton fabrics. The water contact angles of Cotton-g-LMA, PET-g-LMA and PET-g-PEG & LMA were 156°, 153° and 155°, respectively, and after 45 washing cycles or 1000 rubbing cycles, the corresponding water contact angles decreased to 145°, 88°, 134° and 146°, 127° and 143°, respectively. Additionally, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polyamides-6 (PA6) fabrics all exhibited the same properties as the PET fabric. Therefore, the grafting of hydroxyl can improve the hydrophobic effect of LMA coating and the binding property between LMA and fabrics effectively, without changing the wearing comfort.

Author(s):  
Liyun Xu ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Ying Guo ◽  
Ruiyun Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Shi ◽  
...  

In order to obtain stable super-hydrophobicity, suitable hydrophobic treatment agent should be selected according to different materials. In this paper, cotton and poly (-ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fabric was respectively coated by dodecyl methacrylate (LMA) via argon combined capacitively coupled plasma (CCP), and the surface hydrophobicity and durability of treated cotton and polyester fabrics were also discussed. An interesting phenomenon was happened that LMA coated cotton fabric (Cotton-g-LMA) had better water repellency and mechanical durability than LMA coated PET fabric (PET-g-LMA), and LMA coated hydroxyl grafted PET fabrics (PET fabrics were successively coated with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and LMA, PET-g-PEG&LMA) had similar performance to those of cotton fabrics. The water contact angle (WCA) of Cotton-g-LMA, PET-g-LMA and PET-g-PEG&LMA was 156 °, 153 ° and 155 °, respectively, and after 45 washing cycles or 1000 rubbing cycles, the corresponding WCA was decreased to 145 °, 88 °, 134 °and 146 °, 127 °, 143 °, respectively. Also, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polyamides-6 (PA6) fabrics were all exhibited the same properties to PET fabric. Therefore, the grafting of hydroxyl can improve the hydrophobic effect of LMA coating and the binding property between LMA and fabrics effectively without changing the wearing comfort..


1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Van Der Mei ◽  
H.J. Busscher

Physicochemical and structural properties of microbial cell surfaces play an important role in their adhesion to surfaces and are determined by the chemical composition of the outermost cell surface. Many traditional methods used to determine microbial cell wall composition require fractionation of the organisms and consequently do not yield information about the composition of the outermost cell surface. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measures the elemental composition of the outermost cell surfaces of micro-organisms. The technique requires freeze-drying of the organisms, but, nevertheless, elemental surface concentration ratios of oral streptococcal cell surfaces with peritrichously arranged surface structures showed good relationships with physicochemical properties measured under physiological conditions, such as zeta potentials. Isoelectric points ap-peared to be governed by the relative abundance of oxygen- and nitrogen-containing groups on the cell surfaces. Also, the intrinsic microbial cell-surface hydrophobicity by water contact angles related to the cell-surface composition as by XPS and was highest for strains with an elevated isoelectric point. Inclusion of elemental surface compositions for tufted streptococcal strains caused deterioration of the relationships found. Interestingly, hierarchical cluster analysis on the basis of the elemental surface compositions revealed that, of 36 different streptococcal strains, only four S. rattus as well as nine S. mitis strains were located in distinct groups, well separated from the other streptococcal strains, which were all more or less mixed in one group.


1999 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Shi ◽  
K. D. Caldwell

AbstractIn this work, the adsorption isotherm and kinetics of bovine submaxillary gland mucin (BSM) onto a hydrophobic polystyrene surface were studied by the solution depletion method, in which mucin surface concentrations were analyzed by amino acid analysis. Using a Langmuir adsorption model and non-linear curve fitting, kinetics parameters, kon and koff were determined. The coating was found to be very stable with very limited desorption (less than 2%) from a long term observation. By measuring the water contact angles, the changes in surface hydrophobicity due to mucin coating were monitored on four polymer materials, namely polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polyurethane (PU), polystyrene (PS), and silicone. After coating, all the hydrophobic surfaces turned into very hydrophilic. A strict correlation between mucin surface concentration and surface wettability has been found.


Microbiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 152 (9) ◽  
pp. 2673-2682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Roosjen ◽  
Henk J. Busscher ◽  
Willem Norde ◽  
Henny C. van der Mei

Most bacterial strains adhere poorly to poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-brush coatings, with the exception of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain. The aim of this study was to find factors determining whether P. aeruginosa strains do or do not adhere to a PEO-brush coating in a parallel plate flow chamber. On the basis of their adhesion, a distinction could be made between three adhesive and three non-adhesive strains of P. aeruginosa, while bacterial motilities and zeta potentials were comparable for all six strains. However, water contact angles indicated that the adhesive strains were much more hydrophobic than the non-adhesive strains. Furthermore, only adhesive strains released surfactive extracellular substances, which may be engaged in attractive interactions with the PEO chains. Atomic force microscopy showed that the adhesion energy, measured from the retract curves of a bacterial-coated cantilever from a brush coating, was significantly more negative for adhesive strains than for non-adhesive strains (P<0.001). Through surface thermodynamic and extended-DLVO (Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, Overbeek) analyses, these stronger adhesion energies could be attributed to acid–base interactions. However, the energies of adhesion of all strains to a brush coating were small when compared with their energies of adhesion to a glass surface. Accordingly, even the adhesive P. aeruginosa strains could be easily removed from a PEO-brush coating by the passage of a liquid–air interface. In conclusion, cell surface hydrophobicity and surfactant release are the main factors involved in adhesion of P. aeruginosa strains to PEO-brush coatings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moataz Abdulhafez ◽  
Angela J. McComb ◽  
Mostafa Bedewy

Abstract The growth of laser-induced nanocarbons, referred to here as laser-induced nanocarbon (LINC) for short, directly on polymeric surfaces is a promising route toward surface engineering of commercial polymers. This paper aims to demonstrate how this new approach can enable achieving varied surface properties based on tuning the nanostructured morphology of the formed graphitic material on commercial polyimide (Kapton) films. We elucidate the effects of tuning laser processing parameters on the achieved nanoscale morphology and the resulting surface hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity. Our results show that by varying lasing power, rastering speed, laser spot size, and line-to-line gap sizes, a wide range of water contact angles are possible, i.e., from below 20 deg to above 110 deg. Combining water contact angle measurements from an optical tensiometer with LINC surface characterization using optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy enables building the process–structur–property relationship. Our findings reveal that both the value of contact angle and the anisotropic wetting behavior of LINC on polyimide are dependent on their hierarchical surface nanostructure which ranges from isotropic nanoporous morphology to fibrous morphology. Results also show that increasing gap sizes lead to an increase in contact angles and thus an increase in the hydrophobicity of the surface. Hence, our work highlight the potential of this approach for manufacturing flexible devices with tailored surfaces.


2012 ◽  
Vol 583 ◽  
pp. 374-378
Author(s):  
Qi Long Liu ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Hai Yun Jiang ◽  
Ruo Mei Wu ◽  
Zhi Qing Yuan ◽  
...  

A simple, cheap and environmental double thin super-hydrophobic composite film was prepared on the surface of tinplate by a simple casting method. The contact angle and sliding angle were measured by an optical contact angle meter. And the major factors that influenced the super-hydrophobic effect of the composite film were studied in our work. The results showed that when the melting temperature was 120°C, the weight radio of PP and PP-g-MAH was 1:4, the drying time was 24h, the dosage of ethanol was 0.4ml, the composite film showed a satisfactory super-hydrophobicity and its water contact angles reached a maximum value of 156.6° while the sliding angle reached a minimum value of 2°. Because of anti-oxidation, moisture-proof and anticorrosion performance of super-hydrophobic tinplate, it has potential practical applications in packaging material engineering.


Micromachines ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Intan Sue Liana Abdul Hamid ◽  
Beh Khi Khim ◽  
Mohammad Faiz Mohamed Omar ◽  
Khairu Anuar Mohamad Zain ◽  
Nuha Abd Rhaffor ◽  
...  

In this present work, we aim to improve the hydrophobicity of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface. Various heights of 3D PDMS micropillars were fabricated via grayscale photolithography, and improved wettability was investigated. Two approaches of PDMS replication were demonstrated, both using a single master mold to obtain the micropillar arrays. The different heights of fabricated PDMS micropillars were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a surface profiler. The surface hydrophobicity was characterized by measuring the water contact angles. The fabrication of PDMS micropillar arrays was shown to be effective in modifying the contact angles of pure water droplets with the highest 157.3-degree water contact angle achieved by implementing a single mask grayscale lithography technique.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 8058
Author(s):  
Emanuela Lo Faro ◽  
Camilla Menozzi ◽  
Fabio Licciardello ◽  
Patrizia Fava

Surface hydrophobicity and grease resistance of paper may be achieved by the application of coatings usually derived from fossil-oil resources. However, poor recyclability and environmental concerns on generated waste has increased interest in the study of alternative paper coatings. This work focuses on the study of the performances offered by two different biopolymers, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) and polycaprolactone (PCL), also assessing the effect of a plasticizer (PEG) when used as paper coatings. The coated samples were characterized for the structural (by scanning electron microscopy, SEM), diffusive (water vapor and grease barrier properties), and surface properties (affinity for water and oil, by contact angle measurements). Samples of polyethylene-coated and fluorinated paper were used as commercial reference. WVTR of coated samples generally decreased and PHBV and PCL coatings with PEG at 20% showed interesting low wettability, as inferred from the water contact angles. Samples coated with PCL also showed increased grease resistance in comparison with plain paper. This work, within the limits of its lab-scale, offers interesting insights for future research lines toward the development of cellulose-based food contact materials that are fully recyclable and compostable.


2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 2958-2961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Liang ◽  
Gang Xian Zhang ◽  
Feng Xiu Zhang ◽  
Da Yang Wu

The PET fabric surface was modified with ultraviolet radiation and nano-TiO2. The wettability and the broken strength of the modified PET fabric were studied. The results showed that with the increase of the ultraviolet radiation irradiation, the water contact angles of modified PET fabrics decreased greatly. Water contact angle of PET fabric modified with 40g/L nano-TIO2 and 60 min ultraviolet radiation irradiation could decreased to zero in 4.11 seconds. And the capillary rise height of modified PET fabric could increase from 1.1 mm to 110.2 mm. The spraying rate of modified fabric could decrease from 4 to 1 degree, and the water absorption could increase 89.86%. These showed the hydrophobic PET fabric could be modified to super hydrophilic PET fabric. The broken strength of modified PET fabric not only did not decrease, but also increased a little. The broken elongation kept well.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 4977
Author(s):  
Tomasz Ganicz ◽  
Krystyna Rózga-Wijas

The results of the application of a new hydrophobization agent based on a triethoxymethylsilane and standard starch aqueous mixture for mass-produced cellulosic materials—printing paper, paperboard, and sack paper—have been evaluated to examine whether such a mixture can be used in industrial practice. The application of this agent on laboratory sheets prepared in a repetitive recycling process was performed to investigate its influence on the formation and properties of the products, as well as the contamination of circulating water. Measurements of the water contact angle, Cobb tests, and water penetration dynamics (PDA) were performed to test the barrier properties of the resulting materials. The effects of the applied coatings and recycling process on the paper’s tensile strength, tear index, roughness, air permeance, and ISO brightness were studied. Studies have proven that this formulation imparts relatively high surface hydrophobicity to all materials tested (contact angles above 100°) and a significant improvement in barrier properties while maintaining good mechanical and optical performance. The agent also does not interfere with the pulping and re-forming processes during recycling and increases circulation water contamination to an acceptable degree. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra of the paper samples revealed the presence of a polysiloxane network on the surface.


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