Surface treatment of polymers
AssigneeCommonwealth of Australia Scientific And Research Organisation
InventorsWojceich S. Gutowski, Dong Y Wu, Sheng Li
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Abstract
A method of modifying at least part of the surface of a polymer or polymer matrix composite material including: (i) oxidising at least part of the surface of the polymer or polymer matrix material and (ii) subsequently treating the oxidised surface with an organofunctional coupling agent and/or chelating agent, simultaneously with a static and/or a high frequency alternating physical field.
Claims18
A method of modifying at least part of the surface of a polymer or polymer matrix composite material comprising:
- (i) oxidizing at least part of the surface of the polymer or polymer matrix material, and
- (ii) subsequently treating the oxidized surface with an organofunctional coupling agent and/or organofunctional chelating agent, simultaneously with a static physical field and/or a high frequency alternating physical field selected from the group consisting of an ultrasonic field, a microwave field and a radio frequency field.
A method of modifying at least part of the surface of a polymer or polymer matrix composite material comprising:
- (i) oxidizing at least part of the surface of the polymer or polymer matrix material, and
- (ii) subsequently treating the oxidized surface with an organofunctional coupling agent and/or organofunctional chelating agent, simultaneously with a high frequency alternating physical field selected from the group consisting of an ultrasonic field, a microwave field and a radio frequency field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.