PMID- 27650290
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160922
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 1931-7573 (Print)
IS  - 1556-276X (Electronic)
IS  - 1556-276X (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
DP  - 2016 Dec
TI  - Improved Bond Strength of Cyanoacrylate Adhesives Through Nanostructured Chromium 
      Adhesion Layers.
PG  - 416
LID - 10.1186/s11671-016-1629-9 [doi]
LID - 416
AB  - The performance of many consumer products suffers due to weak and inconsistent 
      bonds formed to low surface energy polymer materials, such as polyolefin-based 
      high-density polyethylene (HDPE), with adhesives, such as cyanoacrylate. In this 
      letter, we present an industrially relevant means of increasing bond shear 
      strength and consistency through vacuum metallization of chromium thin films and 
      nanorods, using HDPE as a prototype material and cyanoacrylate as a prototype 
      adhesive. For the as received HDPE surfaces, unmodified bond shear strength is 
      shown to be only 0.20 MPa with a standard deviation of 14 %. When Cr 
      metallization layers are added onto the HDPE at thicknesses of 50 nm or less, 
      nanorod-structured coatings outperform continuous films and have a maximum bond 
      shear strength of 0.96 MPa with a standard deviation of 7 %. When the 
      metallization layer is greater than 50 nm thick, continuous films demonstrate 
      greater performance than nanorod coatings and have a maximum shear strength of 
      1.03 MPa with a standard deviation of 6 %. Further, when the combination of 
      surface roughening with P400 grit sandpaper and metallization is used, 
      100-nm-thick nanorod coatings show a tenfold increase in shear strength over the 
      baseline, reaching a maximum of 2.03 MPa with a standard deviation of only 3 %. 
      The substantial increase in shear strength through metallization, and the 
      combination of roughening with metallization, may have wide-reaching implications 
      in consumer products which utilize low surface energy plastics.
FAU - Gobble, Kyle
AU  - Gobble K
AD  - Mechanical Engineering, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, 
      USA.
FAU - Stark, Amelia
AU  - Stark A
AD  - Mechanical Engineering, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, 
      USA.
FAU - Stagon, Stephen P
AU  - Stagon SP
AD  - Mechanical Engineering, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, 
      USA. s.stagon@unf.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160920
PL  - United States
TA  - Nanoscale Res Lett
JT  - Nanoscale research letters
JID - 101279750
PMC - PMC5030205
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adhesion
OT  - Cyanoacrylate
OT  - Nanorods
OT  - Physical vapor deposition
OT  - Polyolefin
EDAT- 2016/09/22 06:00
MHDA- 2016/09/22 06:01
PMCR- 2016/09/20
CRDT- 2016/09/22 06:00
PHST- 2016/07/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/09/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/09/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/09/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/09/22 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/09/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s11671-016-1629-9 [pii]
AID - 1629 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s11671-016-1629-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nanoscale Res Lett. 2016 Dec;11(1):416. doi: 10.1186/s11671-016-1629-9. Epub 2016 
      Sep 20.