Polymer Surface Modification: Relevance to Adhesion, Volume 2

PART 1 PLASMA SURFACE MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES: Surface modification of poly(tetrafluoroethylene) in RF glow-discharge (H2, He, Ar, O2, N2, NH3) plasmas. XPS characterization, M. Charbonnier, M. Romand, M. Alami and Tran Minh Duc; Plasma surface modification of Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) substrates - a route for electroless plating, M. Charbonnier, M. Romand and M. Alami; Chemically well-defined surface functionalization of polyethylene and polypropylene by pulsed plasma modification followed by grafting of molecules, G. Kuhn, A. Ghode, St. Weidner, I. Retzko, W.E.S. Unger and J.F. Friedrich; A novel atmospheric plasma system for polymer surface treatment, A. Yializis, S.A. Pirzada and W. Decker; Ultrahydrophobic polymeric surfaces prepared using plasma chemistry, M.C. Hsieh, J.P. Youngblood, W. Chen and T.J. McCarthy; Treatment of vulcanized SBR rubber with low-pressure gas plasma using oxygen-nitrogen mixtures, A.B. Ortiz-Magan, M. Mercedes Pastor-Blas, T.P. Ferrandiz-Gomez and J.M. Martin-Martinez; Plasma treated polycarbonate as substrate for culture of adherent mammalian cells, A. Larsson and A. Ocklind; Significance of interfacial redox reactions and formation of metal-organic complexes for the adhesion of metals on pristine and plasma-treated polymers, J.F. Friedrich, W.E.S. Unger, A. Lippitz, R. Giebler, I. Koprinarov, St. Weidner and G. Kuhn; An XPS and SFM study of plasma treatment and A1 metallisation of polycarbonate - A comparison of SF6 and Ar plasma treatments, H. Kopf, C. Seidel, B. Gotsmann, H. Fuchs and K. Reihs; Copper metallization of plasma-treated fluorinated polymers - Study of the interface and adhesion measurements, M. Tatoulian, F. Cavalli, G. Lorang, J. Amouroux and F. Arefi-Khonsari; Effect of plasma treatment on reinforcement-matrix interaction in Kevlar fibre/bismaleimide composites, S.S. Shyu, T.K. Lin, F.H. Su and S.J. Wu; Plasma surface modification of carbon fibres to improve adhesion in carbon fibre/epoxy composites, N. Dilsiz and G. Akovali; Improved rubber adhesion to textile tire cords by deposition of plasma-polymerized films, W.J. van Ooij, S. Luo, E. Mader and K. Mai; Surface modification of powders using a fluidized bed plasma reactor, W.J. van Ooij and A. Chityala. (Part contents).