RT Journal Article
T1 Assessment of atmospheric plasma treatment cleaning effect on steel surfaces
A1 Rodríguez-Villanueva, Carlos
A1 Encinas García, Noemí
A1 Abenojar, Juana
A1 Martínez, Miguel Ángel
AB The present study deals with the ability of an atmospheric pressure air plasma torch (APPT) treatment to remove lubricant pollutants coming from machining processes on steel surfaces. This effect has been characterized by contact angle measurements, gravimetric analysis and reflection absorption infrared reflectance spectroscopy (RAIR-FTIR). Attending to the initial results of the investigation, further surface analysis has been done by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). In order to define the benefits of cleaning for adhesive bonding processes, pull-off tests were performed on all the coupons. Experimental data show the effectiveness of APPT to achieve not only a high rate of surface lubricant layer elimination, thus cleaning the metal samples by means of a solvent free and fast treatment, but also a remarkable improvement on the substrate adhesive bonding strength.
PB Elsevier
SN 0257-8972
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99862
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99862
LA eng
NO Rodríguez-Villanueva C, Encinas N, Abenojar J, Martinez MA. Assessment of atmospheric plasma treatment cleaning effect on steel surfaces. Surf Coat Technol. 2013 Dec 15;236:450-456
NO Financial support from the BSH Electrodomésticos España S.A., the Fundación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Instituto Tecnológico de Química y Materiales “Álvaro Alonso Barba” is acknowledged. The authors also acknowledge the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Group (Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad Pontificia Comillas-ICAI) for the opportunity to perform the ATR–FTIR experiments
NO BSH Electrodomésticos España S.A
NO Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
NO Instituto Tecnológico de Química y Materiales “Álvaro Alonso Barba”
NO Universidad Pontificia Comillas
DS Docta Complutense
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