Loss and recovery of hydrophobicity of RTV silicone rubber coating

Author

Zhidong, Jia ; Zhicheng, Guan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

388

Lastpage

391

Abstract

The loss of surface hydrophobicity of room temperature vulcanized (RTV) silicone rubber (SIR) due to immersion in acid, alkali and saline solutions has been studied as a function of immersion time and concentration. The loss and recovery of the hydrophobicity is correlated with the solute and the absorption of water during immersion and its subsequent desorption in air. The hydrophobicity is determined by measuring the static contact angle between the tangent to a droplet of distilled water and the horizontal RTV-SIR coating surface. The surface tensions of solutions were measured before and after the RTV-SIR coatings were immersed in solutions. The values show the effect of solution on RTV-SIR coating.

Keywords

contact angle; electric breakdown; silicone rubber; surface tension; RTV silicone rubber coating; acid solutions; alkali solutions; concentration; desorption; hydrophobicity loss; hydrophobicity recovery; immersion; immersion time; room temperature vulcanized rubber; saline solutions; static contact angle; surface hydrophobicity; surface tensions; Absorption; Coatings; Insulation; Moisture; Pollution measurement; Polymers; Rubber; Surface contamination; Surface tension; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, 2002 Annual Report Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7502-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEIDP.2002.1048816

Filename

1048816