Authors: Yutaka Mizuta Yusuke Daiko Atsushi Mineshige Masafumi Kobune Tetsuo Yazawa
Publish Date: 2010/11/11
Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 80-84
Abstract
Phenyltriethoxysilane PhTES and tetraethoxysilane TEOS coatings xPhTES·100 − xTEOS mol x = 0 − 80 were prepared on polycarbonate PC substrate and adhesion surface hardness and distribution of phenyl groups were studied The coatings with more than 60 mol of PhTES showed good adhesion ≈ 100 and the pencil hardness of PC substrate 4B improved to 2B or B after the coatings Bulk gels with the same compositions were also prepared and distribution of phenyl groups were estimated using fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopy KBr method for bulk gels and attenuated total reflection ATR method for coatings A significant difference for the distribution of phenyl groups was clearly observed between bulk gels and coatings suggesting PC substrate affects the distribution of phenyl groups in coatings The adhesion and FTIR results revealed that there is an interaction caused by πelectrons between benzene rings on PC substrate and phenyl groups of PhTESTEOS coatings It was found that the adhesion was strongly correlated with the phenylsilsesquioxane networks formed around PC substrate side
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