Glow Discharge Plasma Treatment on Nonwoven Fabrics for Medical Application

Abstract

In this paper, glow discharge plasma operating in air atmosphere has been used to improve the surface hydrophilic and antibacterial properties of the polyester non-woven fabric. The wicking height results show that the surface hydrophilic property of the fabric samples is greatly improved with plasma treatment. The analysis of SEM shows that the surface roughness of the treated fabric samples increases due to etching in plasma processing. The analysis of FTIR and XPS indicate that oxygen-containing and nitrogen-containing polar functional groups and addition that copper is embedded on the polyester surface in plasma processing. Plasma-treated samples will use to good padding cloth and dressing cloth.