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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2011 May 24;27(12):7949–7957. doi: 10.1021/la200298n

Table 2.

Effects of time delay between oxygen plasma treatment and the fluoro-silanization reaction on the extent of fluorination of the PMMA surface measured by water and hexadecane contact angle measurements.

Time delay between oxygen plasma
treatment and fluoro-silane treatment
Water
contact angle
Hexadecane
contact
angle
No delay 121 ± 4° 82 ± 2°
1 h 121 ± 1° 81 ± 1°
2 h 120 ± 2° 82 ± 1°