Superhydrophilic Coating of Pine Wood by Plasma Functionalization of Self-Assembled Polystyrene Spheres

Autor: René Gustus, Alexandra Prowald, Wolfgang Maus-Friedrichs, Sebastian Dahle, J. Meuthen, Wolfgang Viöl
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Coatings
Volume 11
Issue 2
Coatings, Vol 11, Iss 114, p 114 (2021)
Coatings, vol. 11, no. 2, 114, 2021.
ISSN: 2079-6412
DOI: 10.3390/coatings11020114
Popis: Self-assembling films typically used for colloidal lithography have been applied to pine wood substrates to change the surface wettability. Therefore, monodisperse polystyrene (PS) spheres have been deposited onto a rough pine wood substrate via dip coating. The resulting PS sphere film resembled a polycrystalline face centered cubic (FCC)-like structure with typical domain sizes of 5&ndash
15 single spheres. This self-assembled coating was further functionalized via an O2 plasma. This plasma treatment strongly influenced the particle sizes in the outermost layer, and hydroxyl as well as carbonyl groups were introduced to the PS spheres&rsquo
surfaces, thus generating a superhydrophilic behavior.
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