Chemical Structure of EVA Films Obtained by Pulsed Electron Beam and Pulse Laser Ablation
Agata Niemczyk,
Dariusz Moszyński,
Roman Jędrzejewski,
Konrad Kwiatkowski,
Joanna Piwowarczyk,
Jolanta Baranowska
Affiliations
Agata Niemczyk
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, al. Piastow 19, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Dariusz Moszyński
Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Institute of Inorganic Chemical Technology and Environment Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, al. Piastow 42, 71-065 Szczecin, Poland
Roman Jędrzejewski
Łukasiewicz Research Network—PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, ul. Stabłowicka 147, 54-066 Wrocław, Poland
Konrad Kwiatkowski
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Department of Mechanics and Fundamentals of Machine Design, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, al. Piastow 19, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Joanna Piwowarczyk
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, al. Piastow 19, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Jolanta Baranowska
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, al. Piastow 19, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA) films were deposited for the first time using physical methods. The chemical structure of the films obtained using two techniques, pulsed electron beam deposition (PED) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD), was studied by attenuated total reflection Fourier infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Whilst significant molecular degradation of the EVA films was observed for the PLD method, the original macromolecular structure was only partially degraded when the PED technique was used, emphasizing the superiority of the PED method over PLD for structurally complex polymers such as EVA. Optical and scanning electron microscopic observations revealed compact and smooth EVA films deposited by pulsed electron beam ablation as opposed to heterogeneous films with many different sized particulates obtained by PLD.
