TY - JOUR
TI - Smart adhesion by surface treatment experimental and theoretical insights
AU - Wang Chunxia
AU - Xu Lin
AU - Liu Guoliang
AU - Ren Yu
AU - Lv Jinchun
AU - Gao Dawei
AU - Lu Zhenqian
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 4
SP - 2355
EP - 2363
PT - Article
AB - To investigate how plasma treatment affected the surface structure and  adhesion to polypropylene matrix and unsaturated polyester matrix, green  abaca fibers were treated by low temperature plasma under different plasma  processing parameters including treatment time, output power, and working  gas. Abaca fibers were characterized by atomic force microscope, X-ray  photoelectron spectroscopy, contact angle and interfacial shear strength.  The results of contact angle and interfacial shear strength were consistent  with the changes in surface roughness and the atomic ratio of the plasma  treated abaca fibers with treatment time, output power, and working gas. It  was concluded that the surface roughness and atomic ratio played a major  role in the adhesion improvement of the plasma treated abaca fibers to  polypropylene matrix and unsaturated polyester matrix due to the mechanical  interlocking and chemical bonding, respectively. The geometrical potential  theory was adopted to elucidate the mechanism of the adhesion property.