“…To further enhance the resistance of a nylon composite against high mechanical impacts, it is important to seek feasible, scalable, and easy-to-implement methodologies to improve the surface binding strength of nylon to popular thermoset adhesives such as EPON 825, with tailored surface wettability and chemical functionality [8]. Different approaches have been applied to improve the morphological, mechanical, and chemical properties of nylon-based surfaces via a variety of techniques, including UV and electron beam irradiations [9,10], chemical treatments [11,12], nanoparticle coating [13], and plasma treatments [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. These previous studies attempted to characterize nylon surface wettability and chemistry, as well as seeking feasible plasmaenhanced surface alterations.…”