Abstract
We developed a novel fabrication method of on-demand polymer film synthesis on a substrate under atmospheric pressure using microplasma polymerization with a laboratory-made torch-type microplasma polymerization apparatus. We used styrene as a model monomer for evaluation of MPP-styrene films. These MPP-styrene films were characterized using data FT-IR, XPS, contact angle analysis, solubility, and gas sorption property using QCM technique. Characterization results of FT-IR, contact angle analysis, and XPS suggest that MPP-styrene films were oxidized at the surface and including embryo parts of polymer. The annealing treatment of MPP-styrene film is perfectly effective in decreasing the extractable moieties of MPP-styrene film. Gas sorption properties of MPP-styrene films with annealing were controllable by polymerization parameters namely the carrier gas flow rate of the monomer.
