The effect of the electron-beam treatment of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PETP) films in an air atmosphere on the functional chemical composition of their surface and on the optical properties in the UV region was studied. The mutual functional transformations of surface sites (carbonyl, methyl, and hydroxyl groups) by the action of fast electrons were analyzed as functions of the absorbed dose over the range 25–500 kGy using the adsorption of acid–base indicators with the pKa values ranging from –5 to 15. Correlation between the absorbed dose, the concentration of certain functional groups (centers with pKa 5.0 (–CH3) and 0.8 (–CH2OH)), the hydrophilicity of films, and the transparency in the UV region of the spectrum was established. The transparency was found to exhibit a pronounced minimum at an absorbed dose of 150–200 kGy. A comparative analysis of PETP surfaces differing by the absence or presence of kaolin (0.1%) as an oxide material additive was performed. Differences in the pKa distribution of adsorption sites were found, and their dependence on the absorbed dose was studied. 相似文献
Summary: Nanometer scale morphological order of macroscopically amorphous polyesters, obtained from the melt at moderate cooling rates, was observed in the past. The effect of such order on mechanical properties of a PET/PEN blend, evaluated by AFM nanoindentations, is reported in this study. Results show that nanoindentations conducted at relatively high load, with penetration depths of the order of 100 nm, confirm the information obtained from mechanical tests at micrometer scale, i.e., microhardness. On the other hand, true nanometer scale indentations (<40 nm) are seen to discriminate between the mechanical properties of the nanophases formed during solidification.
Statistical distribution of elastic moduli observed after 60 nanoindentations performed at 1 µN on each sample solidified at the cooling rates reported in the legend. 相似文献
The alteration of surface characteristics of the PET-E poly(ethylene terephthalate) film by treatment in the cathode fall of an ac (50 Hz) glow-discharge plasma was studied. The plasma-assisted modification leads to surface hydrophilization which is retained for a long period of time. It was found that the discharge treatment induced a negative charge in the polymer surface layer. The charge density created under different treatment conditions was correlated with the contact angle. The thermally stimulated relaxation and depolarization measurements on the original and the modified film showed that charge buildup in the film during the discharge treatment was due to trapping of injected electrons. From the experimental data, it was inferred that the charge states emerged play the determining role in enhancing the surface energy of modified PET films. 相似文献
Chiral polyethyne derivatives with lyotropic liquid‐crystalline properties are found to be able to self‐assemble, forming two chiral organizations with opposite handedness in solid thin films by selection of the casting solvent and its concentration. After the film preparation, chiral organization could also be induced by simple exposure to an appropriate organic solvent's vapor for several minutes without thermal treatment. Furthermore, irreversible inversion of the handedness of the chiral organization in the film could be achieved by exposure to solvent vapor.