Based on a conference sponsored by the Electrochemical Society, held during May 1993 in Honolulu, this practical reference guide integrates recent findings on metallized plastics and their far-reaching applications. The authors have updated information to reflect new developments and technologies. This practical reference guide includes extensive discussions of surface and interfacial aspects of metallization and adhesion.

Addressing both basic and applied aspects of the subject, Metallized Plastics: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the properties of metal deposits; investigates metal/polymer interfacial interactions using methods from ESCA and SIMS to HREELS and UV photoemission; presents computer simulations of dielectric relaxation at metal/insulator interfaces; covers the use of the blister test to study dynamic fracture mechanisms in thin metallized plastics; and much more.

From the Preface: “...There are a legion of applications for metallized plastics, ranging from the very mundane (e.g., as decorative coatings) to high-tech (in microelectronics). Even a cursory look at the current literature will evince that the topic of metallized plastics is pursued with very keen interest, and all signals indicate that this high tempo of interest and R&D activity will continue unabated...”

Target Audience: Plastics, chemical, and microelectronics packaging engineers; polymer, surface, and colloid chemists; plastics technologists; adhesion and thin film scientists and technologists; and graduate-level students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents:

Metallization Techniques and Properties of Metal Deposits:

Designing of Organometallics for Vapor Phase Metallization of Plastics

Laser-Induced Selective Copper Deposition on Polyimides and Semi-conductors from Solution

High Resolution Metallization of Poly(tetrafluoroethylene)

Preparation and Characterization of Metallized Polymer Films Formed from Poly[4-(terephthaloylamino) salicyclic acid hydrazide]—Metal Chelates

Metallization of Aramid Fibers and Films Through Aramid Anion Chemistry

Metallization of Polymerized Vesicles Formed from Mixtures of Zwitterionic and Negatively Charged Phospholipids

Selective Metallization of Optically Variable Devices

Metal Diffusion During Metallization of High-Temperature Polymers

Magnetic Properties of Metal Layer Generated by Reduction of Polymer Containing Metal Ion

Solid Phase Dispersion of Ultrafine Particles into a Polymer Through Thermal Relaxation

Relaxational and Interfacial Properties of Fine Metal Particles—Polymer Composites

Investigation of Interfacial Interactions:

The Influence of Polymer Surface Functional Groups in Metal/Polymer Interfacial Chemistry

Metal/Polymer Interfacial Interactions: Chromium-Fluorinated Poly(aryl ether)

In Situ Study of the Metal—Polymer Interface Formation by Static SIMS: Cases of Al and Cu on PET

Applications of HREELS to Metal—Polymer Systems

VUV Photoemission Study of Metallized Polymer Surfaces

The Reactivity of Low-Workfunction Metals on Conjugated Polymer Surfaces: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study

Theoretical Studies of Metal/Conjugated Polymer Interfaces: Aluminum and Calcium Interacting with Pi-Conjugated Systems

Computer Simulation of Dielectric Relaxation at Metal—Insulator Interfaces

Plastic Surface Modification and Adhesion Aspects of Metallized Plastics:

Plasma Surface Treatment in Metal—Polymer Systems: Interface Properties and Adhesion

Rearrangement of Functional Groups of Plasma-Treated Polymer Surfaces by Contact Angle Measurement

Surface Modification of Aramid Fibers by a Low Temperature Plasma to Improve Their Adhesion

Chemical and Physical Surface Modifications of Polymers by Ion Beam Treatments

Metal/Polymer Adhesion: Effect of Ion Bombardment on Polymer Interfacial Reactivity

An Aqueous Pretreatment to Facilitate the Bonding of Electrolessly- and Electrolytically-Deposited Metals to Polyetherimides

The Nature of the Metal/Polyetherimide Chemical Bond

Adhesion of Metals to Fluorocarbon Polymers

Dynamic Fracture Mechanism of Thin Metallized Plastics via the Blister Test

Index