Heterogeneous fluorine-containing surface macro-, micro- and nanostructures in polymer films and their applications

A new approach to function-structure modeling of the surface modified polymers

“…In connection with the above, to effectively design and predict the properties of the modified materials based on the quantitative analysis of their surfaces SEM-images it is necessary: -to conduct the additional studies of the of polymer films' chemical structure that can be performed, for example, with the scanning electron microscopy in the mode of the EDS-analysis; -to develope more sensitive techniques for the specification of the digital nanorelief models' parameters that would allow us to statistically reliably distinguish the samples with different physical and chemical properties. Thus, the quantitative analysis of images of polymer surfaces (in particular, SEM-images) becomes extremely important, first, in order to reduce the dependence of the observation results on the operators of measuring complexes, and, second, in order to provide the possibility of introducing quantitative measures, criteria and techniques that allow comparing nanotextures of the surfaces (in particular, for the fluoropolymers) previously observed under approximately the same conditions [56]. The original concepts and techniques for applying some possible solutions to the problem of quantitative description and modeling of polymer film surface structures are presented in [57].…”

The representativeness of the statistical data frame in the quantitative image analysis

“…The investigated fragment of a SEM-image of sample surface of LDPE modified [13] with the method of gas phase sulfonation [14].…”

The polymer composites’ morphological structure simulation

“…The observed fractions of "convex" and "concave" objects are significantly different in case (a) and approximately the same in case (b). This is due to the fact that the sulfonation generates micro-sized cavities on the surface of experimental samples and the fluorination contributes to the increase in its average roughness [37,38].…”

“…wettability, permeability, strength, etc.) and their surfaces were subjected to imaging [35][36][37][38].…”