Acta Chimica Slovaca (ACS) publishes papers on fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical technology, chemical engineering and process control, biotechnology and food technology. Welcome are also topics which include chemical aspects of materials, physical chemistry and chemical physics, analytical chemistry, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical engineering.

Coating of TiO2 nanoparticles on the plasma activated polypropylene fibers

Renáta Szabová *, Ľudmila Černáková, Magdaléna Wolfová, Mirko Černák a

Department of Plastics and Rubber, Institute of Polymer Materials, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, Bratislava 812 37, Slovak Republic
a Department of Physical electronics, Masaryk University, Kotlářska 2, Brno 611 37, Czech Republic

E-mail: * renata.szabova@stuba.sk

Abstract: Polypropylene nonwoven were pretreated by coplanar diffuse surface barrier discharge operated at atmospheric pressure in nitrogen before coating them by TiO2 nanoparticles. The plasma treatment induced chemical and topographical changes on the polypropylene surface were studied. Results indicate that incorporation of oxygen atoms in polypropylene surface and increasing of surface roughness are the main factors in TiO2 adhesion enhancement.

Keywords: polypropylene nonwoven, TiO2 nanoparticles, polypropylene surface

Full paper in Portable Document Format: acs_0037.pdf

Acta Chimica Slovaca, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009, pp. 70—76