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Functionalization of industrial polypropylene films via the swift‐heavy‐ion‐induced grafting of glycidyl methacrylate
Author(s) -
Chawla S.,
Ghosh A. K.,
Avasthi D. K.,
Kulriya P.,
Ahmad S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.26425
Subject(s) - glycidyl methacrylate , materials science , polypropylene , swift heavy ion , crystallinity , grafting , contact angle , surface modification , polymer chemistry , methacrylate , chemical engineering , scanning electron microscope , irradiation , polymer , copolymer , composite material , fluence , physics , nuclear physics , engineering
Swift‐silver‐ion irradiation was explored as a means of forming chemically active sites on the surface of biaxially oriented polypropylene films. The active species, formed in air, was used to induce the graft copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate in an aqueous solution. The surface structure, crystallinity, morphology, and hydrophilicity of the grafted samples were characterized with Fourier transform infrared, UV, wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and contact‐angle measurements. Glycidyl methacrylate could be grafted onto biaxially oriented polypropylene after swift‐heavy‐ion irradiation without an additional initiator. The contact angle of the modified films decreased with the grafting percentage of glycidyl methacrylate on the polypropylene. The swift silver ions induced significant grafting only in small regions (i.e., the latent tracks) of the polymer. Furthermore, as the fluence of swift heavy ions increased beyond an optimum value, the overlapping of the latent tracks reduced the grafting yield. The observed findings could be very useful in developing an initiator‐free grafting system. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 2007