TY - JOUR
T1 - A simple approach for surface hardening of polystyrene
AU - Tsuruta, Hirofumi
AU - Ikinaga, Yukari
AU - Fujii, Yoshihisa
AU - Tanaka, Keiji
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partly supported by Cooperation Grant from Chemicals Evaluation and Research Institute, Japan (CERI) , and by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 24350061 ) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan .
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - One strategy in prolonging the lifetime of polymer materials is to improve their surface mechanical properties. A simple and easy method to modify the polymer surface based on the preferential segregation of inorganic materials is applied to a glassy polymer. We clearly show that the polystyrene film with a few nm-thick hybrid surface layer with hydrolyzed tetraethoxysilane exhibits excellent wear resistance and anti-oxidant properties.
AB - One strategy in prolonging the lifetime of polymer materials is to improve their surface mechanical properties. A simple and easy method to modify the polymer surface based on the preferential segregation of inorganic materials is applied to a glassy polymer. We clearly show that the polystyrene film with a few nm-thick hybrid surface layer with hydrolyzed tetraethoxysilane exhibits excellent wear resistance and anti-oxidant properties.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.10.070
DO - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.10.070
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84870497457
SN - 0169-4332
VL - 264
SP - 589
EP - 592
JO - Applied Surface Science
JF - Applied Surface Science
ER -