Photografting of perfluoroalkanes onto polyethylene surfaces via azide/nitrene chemistry

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• 作者：Konstantin Siegmann^a ; ^{konstantin.siegmann@zhaw.ch} ; Jan Inauen^a ; ^{jan.inauen@zhaw.ch} ; Diego Villamaina^b ; ^{diego.villamaina@gmail.com} ; Martin Winkler^a ; ^{martin.winkler@zhaw.ch}
• 关键词：Nitrene ; Azide ; Insertion ; Polyethylene ; Photografting ; Perfluorinated compounds
• 刊名：Applied Surface Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：28 February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：396
• 期：Complete
• 页码：672-680
• 全文大小：1408 K
• 卷排序：396

文摘

The purpose of this study is to render polyethylene surfaces strongly and permanently hydrophobic. Polyethylene is a common plastic and, because of its inertness, difficult to graft. We chose polyethylene as example because of its ubiquity and model character. As graft chains linear perfluoroalkyl residues (−C4F9, −C6F13, −C8F17 and −C10F21) were chosen, and photografting was selected as grafting method.Photolytically generated nitrenes can insert into carbon–hydrogen bonds and are therefore suited for binding to polyethylene. Hydrophobic photo reactive surface modifiers based on azide/nitrene chemistry are designed, synthesized in high yield and characterized. Four new molecules are described. Water contact angles exceeding 110° were achieved on grafted polyethylene.One problem is to demonstrate that the photografted surface modifiers are bound covalently to the polyethylene. Abrasion tests show that all new molecules, when photografted to polyethylene, have a higher abrasion resistance than a polyethylene surface coated with a long-chain perfluoroalkane. Relative abrasion resitances of 1.4, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5 compared to the fluoroalkane coating were obtained for the four compounds. An abrasion model using ice is developed. Although all four compounds have the same λmax of 266 nm in acetonitrile solution, their molar extincition coefficients increase from 1.6·104 to 2.2·104 with increasing length of the fluorotelomer chain. Exitonic coupling of the chromophores of the surface modifiers is observed for specific molecules in the neat state. A linear correlation of water contact angle with fluorine surface content, as measured by photoelectron spectroscopy, in grafted polyethylene surfaces is established.