AFM and SEM analysis of polystyrene Surface Treated by DC Pseudo Plasma Discharge | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Chemistry | ||
| Article 14, Volume 62, Issue 7, July 2019, Pages 1335-1341 PDF (1.81 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2019.5365.1473 | ||
| Authors | ||
| D Moubarak1; M Abd Al-Halim2; A. Abu-Hashem2; Yahia Hamdy Elbashar* 3 | ||
| 1Thebes High Institute of Engineering, Cairo 11434, Egypt | ||
| 2Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Qalyubia , Egypt | ||
| 3Egypt Nanotechnology Center ((EGNC)), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In this work, the surface treatment of polystyrene using the DC Pseudo-Plasma is studied. First, the DC Pseudo-plasma was employed as a function of plasma device parameters under different operating conditions including time (t) (30 s), current (I) (15mA), distance (d) (3 mm) between inter-electrodes, mesh anode transparency (T) (19 %), distance between the polystyrene sample and the mesh anode (D) (2 mm) and air pressure in plasma exposuring system (P) (2 torr). The best optimization of these parameters were performed by the water absorbency, which supported by the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) test Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) test. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| DC pseudo plasma discharge; polystyrene; Surface treatment | ||
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