Polybutylene terephthalate adhesion on metals: A density functional theory investigation

• Main Authors: David, Melanie, Roman, Tanglaw, Diño, Wilson A., Nakanishi, Hiroshi, Kasai, Hideaki, Ando, Naoki, Naritomi, Masanori
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Polybutenes; Binding energy; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4561
• Institution: De La Salle University

We investigate the adhesion strength of poly(butylene terephthalate) or PBT on aluminum using density functional theory based energy calculations on periodic models. Instead of dealing with a bigger polymer system, we considered, as a first step, a small scale configuration to examine the key point...