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A solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance study of post-plasma reactions in organosilicone microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) coatings
Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes 5095, SA, Australia.
Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes 5095, SA, Australia.
Mawson Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes 5095, SA, Australia.
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Sustainable Process Engineering.
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2014 (English)In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244, E-ISSN 1944-8252, Vol. 6, no 11, p. 8353-8362Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Plasma-polymerized organosilicone coatings can be used to impart abrasion resistance and barrier properties to plastic substrates such as polycarbonate. Coating rates suitable for industrial-scale deposition, up to 100 nm/s, can be achieved through the use of microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), with optimal process vapors such as tetramethyldisiloxane (TMDSO) and oxygen. However, it has been found that under certain deposition conditions, such coatings are subject to post-plasma changes; crazing or cracking can occur anytime from days to months after deposition. To understand the cause of the crazing and its dependence on processing plasma parameters, the effects of post-plasma reactions on the chemical bonding structure of coatings deposited with varying TMDSO-to-O2 ratios was studied with 29Si and 13C solid-state magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS NMR) using both single-pulse and cross-polarization techniques. The coatings showed complex chemical compositions significantly altered from the parent monomer. 29Si MAS NMR spectra revealed four main groups of resonance lines, which correspond to four siloxane moieties (i.e., mono (M), di (D), tri (T), and quaternary (Q)) and how they are bound to oxygen. Quantitative measurements showed that the ratio of TMDSO to oxygen could shift the chemical structure of the coating from 39% to 55% in Q-type bonds and from 28% to 16% for D-type bonds. Post-plasma reactions were found to produce changes in relative intensities of 29Si resonance lines. The NMR data were complemented by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Together, these techniques have shown that the bonding environment of Si is drastically altered by varying the TMDSO-to-O2 ratio during PECVD, and that post-plasma reactions increase the cross-link density of the silicon-oxygen network. It appears that Si-H and Si-OH chemical groups are the most susceptible to post-plasma reactions. Coatings produced at a low TMDSO-to-oxygen ratio had little to no singly substituted moieties, displayed a highly cross-linked structure, and showed less post-plasma reactions. However, these chemically more stable coatings are less compatible mechanically with plastic substrates, because of their high stiffness.

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2014. Vol. 6, no 11, p. 8353-8362
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NMR, organosilicone, graded, thin-films, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), postplasma
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Physical Chemistry
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Chemistry of Interfaces
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-4012DOI: 10.1021/am501228qISI: 000337336900048PubMedID: 24791938Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84902455884Local ID: 1dd3348b-2d6d-4814-9c04-a32a8ee345aeOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-4012DiVA, id: diva2:976874
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Validerad; 2014; 20140701 (andbra)

Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2024-11-20Bibliographically approved

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