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The surface energy spectrum of PVC
Author(s) -
Mash C. J.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/pi.4990280103
Subject(s) - polyvinyl chloride , energy spectrum , surface (topology) , spectral line , materials science , spectroscopy , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , composite material , physics , chromatography , mathematics , geometry , quantum mechanics , astronomy , nuclear physics
A new theory enabling the surface energy of a solid to be expressed as a quantitative energy spectrum has recently been proposed. This theory was tested on clean and contaminated polyvinyl chloride (PVC) surfaces which yielded remarkably different spectra. Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) confirmed that peak energies could be correlated with specific molecular groups exposed at the surface.