Promotion of tribological and hydrophobic properties of a coating on TPE substrates by atmospheric plasma-polymerization Articles uri icon

authors

  • SAINZ GARCÍA, ELISA
  • ALBA ELIAS, FERNANDO
  • MUGICA VIDAL, RODOLFO
  • PANTOJA RUIZ, MARIOLA

publication date

  • May 2016

start page

  • 50

end page

  • 60

volume

  • 371

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0169-4332

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1873-5584

abstract

  • Thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) are used in the automotive sealing industry with the objective of producing anti-friction and hydrophobic components. At present, the anti-friction property is achieved by the electrostatic flocking, which sometimes produces an irregular coating. Therefore, this paper's objective is the promotion of adhesion of an anti-friction (based on the silane aminopropyltriethoxysilane-APTES-) and hydrophobic (based on the fluorinated precursor 1-perfluorohexene-PFH-) coating by the adhesion promoter, APTES. Different mixtures of APTES and PFH have been applied to a TPE substrate by an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet (APPJ) system with Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) in order to determine the optimal mixture of precursors. The main difficulty in this work lies in the hydrophilic character of APTES and the low adhesion of the fluorinated coatings.

keywords

  • adhesion; plasma-polymerization; friction coefficient; hydrophobicity; aminopropyltriethoxysilane; perfluorohexene