Effects of cold oxygen plasma treatment on activating the surface of poplar veneers and improving its wettability were investigated. The veneers were treated with cold oxygen plasma for 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 min, and aged in air for 1, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days. The dynamic adhesive wettability of veneers was assessed using the contact angle, K-value analysis, and surface free energy. The shear str...

Oxygen plasma has been treated on the surface of indium-tin-oxide (ITO) to improve the efficiency of the organic lightemitting diodes (OLEDs) device. The plasma treatment was expected to inject the holes effectively due to the control of an ITO work-function and the reduction of surface roughness. To optimize the treatment condition, a surface resistance and morphology of the ITO surface were i...

The variation of residual stress with the water absorption was reduced drastically by the N2O plasma treatment for fluorinated silicon-oxide thin films. Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy analysis showed that the film was oxidized by the plasma treatment. It was also determined that the oxidation occurred on the film surface from the P-etch rate and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analy...

The effect of cleaning the surface of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks by thermal and the O₂ plasma treatments is presented in terms of NH₃ gas sensing characteristics. The goal of this work is to determine the relationship between the physicochemical properties of the cleaned surface (including the chemical composition, crystal structure, hydrophilicity, and impurity content) and ...

Effects of low pressure radio frequency (rf) plasma treatment on the surface properties of polycarbonate are presented in this paper. Results obtained from the surface energy measurement after different conditions of treatment are compared. After treatment the surface free energy increased from the original value of 35 mJ/m2 to 63-74 mJ/m2. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements showed a...

Microwave (MW) plasma was applied to the surface of polyimide (PI) films as a treatment to enhance the adhesion between copper deposition layer and PI surface for electroless plating. The influences of nitrogen MW plasma treatment on chemical composition of the PI surface were investigated by using X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The wettability was also investigated by water contact an...

background: development of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has led to designing scaffolds and their modification to provide a better microenvironment which mimics the natural niche of the cells. gelatin surface modification was applied to improve scaffold flexibility and cytocompatibility. methods: plla/pcl aligned fibrous scaffold was fabricated using electrospinning method. adscs...