Influence of the Oxygen Plasma Treatments on Surface Wettability of Glass Micro Fibers Used as Reinforcement in any Mortars

Abstract:

Presented work deals with the surface treatments and its effect on micro fibers using as randomly dispersed reinforcement in many types of composite materials. Cool oxygen plasma was used to surface wettability modification of chopped glass fibers having diameter equal to 14 μm. Plasma treatments were carried out at three different times of exposition equal to 4 min, 8 min and 16 min. The influence of executed treatments was observed by the horizontal direct optical method enabling static contact angle measurements on micro fibers which were submerged in a distilled water. The identified differences between the contact angles size of original fibers and the treated fibers were equal to several tens of percent.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 714)
• Pages: 148-151
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.714.148
• Online since: September 2016
• Authors: Jan Trejbal*, Lubomír Kopecký, Pavel Tesárek, Zdeněk Prošek
• Keywords: Contact Angle, Micro Fiber Reinforcement, Plasma, Surface Treatments, Wettability

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