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Article

Effects of He and Ar Heat-Assisted Plasma Treatments on the Adhesion Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)

by
Yuji Ohkubo
1,*,
Yuki Okazaki
1,
Masafumi Shibahara
2,
Misa Nishino
1,
Yosuke Seto
1,
Katsuyoshi Endo
1 and
Kazuya Yamamura
1
1
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan
2
Materials and Analysis Department, Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Technology, 3-1-12 Yukihiracho, Kobe 654-0037, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Polymers 2021, 13(23), 4266; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13234266
Submission received: 29 September 2021 / Revised: 27 November 2021 / Accepted: 3 December 2021 / Published: 6 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plasma Processing of Polymers)
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Abstract

Heat-assisted plasma (HAP) treatment using He gas is known to improve the adhesive-bonding and adhesive-free adhesion properties of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). In this study, we investigated the effects of He and Ar gaseous species on the HAP-treated PTFE surface. Epoxy (EP) adhesive-coated stainless steel (SUS304) and isobutylene–isoprene rubber (IIR) were used as adherents for the evaluation of the adhesive-bonding and adhesive-free adhesion properties of PTFE. In the case of adhesive bonding, the PTFE/EP-adhesive/SUS304 adhesion strength of the Ar-HAP-treated PTFE was the same as that of the He-HAP-treated PTFE. In the case of adhesive-free adhesion, the PTFE/IIR adhesion strength of the Ar-HAP-treated PTFE was seven times lower than that of the He-HAP-treated PTFE. The relation among gaseous species used in HAP treatment, adhesion properties, peroxy radical density ratio, surface chemical composition, surface modification depth, surface morphology, surface hardness, and the effect of irradiation with vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and UV photons were investigated. The different adhesive-free adhesion properties obtained by the two treatments resulted from the changes in surface chemical composition, especially the ratios of oxygen-containing functional groups and C–C crosslinks.
Keywords: adhesion; plasma gaseous species; surface treatment depth (surface modification depth); fluoropolymers; heat-assisted plasma treatment adhesion; plasma gaseous species; surface treatment depth (surface modification depth); fluoropolymers; heat-assisted plasma treatment
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Ohkubo, Y.; Okazaki, Y.; Shibahara, M.; Nishino, M.; Seto, Y.; Endo, K.; Yamamura, K. Effects of He and Ar Heat-Assisted Plasma Treatments on the Adhesion Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Polymers 2021, 13, 4266. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13234266

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Ohkubo Y, Okazaki Y, Shibahara M, Nishino M, Seto Y, Endo K, Yamamura K. Effects of He and Ar Heat-Assisted Plasma Treatments on the Adhesion Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Polymers. 2021; 13(23):4266. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13234266

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Ohkubo, Yuji, Yuki Okazaki, Masafumi Shibahara, Misa Nishino, Yosuke Seto, Katsuyoshi Endo, and Kazuya Yamamura. 2021. "Effects of He and Ar Heat-Assisted Plasma Treatments on the Adhesion Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)" Polymers 13, no. 23: 4266. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13234266

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Ohkubo, Y., Okazaki, Y., Shibahara, M., Nishino, M., Seto, Y., Endo, K., & Yamamura, K. (2021). Effects of He and Ar Heat-Assisted Plasma Treatments on the Adhesion Properties of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Polymers, 13(23), 4266. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13234266

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