Adhesion and Water Repellent Properties Of Nascent Dammar - Silicone Thin Film: A Bio Mimicry Approach

摘要

Dammar, a local plant resin (Dipterocaupacea sp) has been used in coating formulation to produce dammar-modified silicone resin. Dammar and silicone were mixed in various compositions and then were coated onto Aluminum Q-panel by using spin coating method and left to dry at room temperature. Adhesion property was investigated by using impact test and pull-off test. There were no significant damage and delaminations were observed at the panel coated with 15 wt.% of dammar that has undergone the impact test. Hence, the addition of more than 15 wt.% of dammar resulted in large delaminations and cracks on the coating materials. Results from pull off test also showed that 15 wt.% of dammar organic coating has strong adhesion, 108 Psi. It made 15 wt% as optimized composition. This optimized composition was added with nanopowder as rheological modifier or additive. Again the modified samples were undergone the impact and pull off test to study the effect of adhesiveness. Contact angle measurement of wettability test was also being carried out. The surface coated with dammar-silicone resin was found to be hydrophobic where the contact angle obtained was 70° for the sample containing lOwt% of dammar. The additional of nanopowder into optimized composition exhibited more hydrophobic phenomenon which approached towards biomimicry behaviour, when water droplets simply rest on the surface without actually wetting the surface to any significant extent (hydrophobic) where the angle of wetting tests more than 90° have been achieved.