TY - JOUR
T1 - Combining polymers with diamond-like carbon (DLC) for highly functionalized materials
AU - Asakawa, R.
AU - Nagashima, S.
AU - Nakamura, Y.
AU - Hasebe, T.
AU - Suzuki, T.
AU - Hotta, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We greatly appreciate fruitful and in-depth discussions with Dai Tsubone, Takashi Hoshida, and Keisuke Enomoto in Keio University and Prof. Aki Kamijo in Yokohama City University Hospital. This work was supported in part by the research grant (Research and Development of Nanodevices for Practical Utilization of Nano-technology) “Nanotech Challenge Program” from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan , a Grant-in-Aid for the Global Center of Excellence Program for the “Center for Education and Research of Symbiotic, Safe and Secure System Design” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, and Technology in Japan (A.H. and S.N.), a Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS: “KAKENHI”) (No. 21656167 to A.H.), and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (No. 21226006 to A.H.).
PY - 2011/11/15
Y1 - 2011/11/15
N2 - Diamond-like carbon (DLC) can be effectively coated on polymer surfaces in order to modify polymers for highly functionalized materials. DLC films have been widely used for many industrial applications due to their outstanding physical properties such as high hardness, wear resistance and biological compatibility. Polymers, on the other hand, can create soft, flexible, highly absorbent and cost-effective materials by selecting or controlling their molecular structures. The DLC films coated on such polymer substrates have been investigated and extensively used because recently, quite a few applications of the polymer-DLC composites to e.g. gas barrier films and biocompatible medical devices have been proposed. In this article, we discussed the barrier properties, especially the gas barrier properties and the biocompatibility of DLC-coated polymers, after summarizing the fundamentals of DLC and polymers, followed by the explanation as to the adhesion and fracture behavior of DLC and polymers, which is crucial for the creation of a new polymer-DLC composite.
AB - Diamond-like carbon (DLC) can be effectively coated on polymer surfaces in order to modify polymers for highly functionalized materials. DLC films have been widely used for many industrial applications due to their outstanding physical properties such as high hardness, wear resistance and biological compatibility. Polymers, on the other hand, can create soft, flexible, highly absorbent and cost-effective materials by selecting or controlling their molecular structures. The DLC films coated on such polymer substrates have been investigated and extensively used because recently, quite a few applications of the polymer-DLC composites to e.g. gas barrier films and biocompatible medical devices have been proposed. In this article, we discussed the barrier properties, especially the gas barrier properties and the biocompatibility of DLC-coated polymers, after summarizing the fundamentals of DLC and polymers, followed by the explanation as to the adhesion and fracture behavior of DLC and polymers, which is crucial for the creation of a new polymer-DLC composite.
KW - Adhesion
KW - Diamond-like carbon
KW - Drug eluting systems
KW - Fracture
KW - Gas barrier
KW - Polymers
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U2 - 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.02.064
DO - 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.02.064
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054090395
SN - 0257-8972
VL - 206
SP - 676
EP - 685
JO - Surface and Coatings Technology
JF - Surface and Coatings Technology
IS - 4
ER -