Proceedings of SerbiaTrib '13

Serbian TribologySocietySERBIATRIB ‘1313 th International Conference onTribologyKragujevac, Serbia, 15 – 17 May 2013Faculty of Engineeringin KragujevacTRIBOLOGICAL STUDY OF BIOCOMPATIBLE HYBRIDORGANIC MOLECULES FILM WITH ANTIBACTERIALEFFECTJ.H. Horng* 1 , C.C.Wei 1 , S. Y. Chern 1 , W.H. KAO 2 , K.W. Chern 1 , Y.S. Chen 11 Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Formosa University, Taiwan2 Institute of Mechatronoptic Systems, Chienkuo Technology University, Taiwan*jhhorng@gmail.comAbstract: Optical glass is widely used on bioengineering and various utilities such as public touchscreendisplay and mobile devices. This work evaluates the feature of anti-bacterial and anti-adhesion on OTSmaterial that mixed with biocompatibility antibacterial agent coated on the optical glass. Test samples wereallocated with different bath and drying temperatures as well as reaction time. The result shows that in thecontact of angle experiments, pure OTS film and mixed antibacterial films have almost the same contactangle about 105° at the condition of reaction time of 12 hours and reaction temperature of 80 ° C.Theantibacterial test find that the order: antibacterial agent> OTS+ antibacterial agent(50%) > OTS+antibacterial agent(10%) > OTS. At the same operation condition, OTS mixed with 50% antibacterial agentis able to increase adhesion force between OTS film and lens. It suggests that the surface treatment of opticallenses involving OTS with 50% antibacterial solution is the most to increase the antifouling andantibacterial functions and enhance the adhesion function between films and lens surfaces.Keywords: self-assembled monolayer, adhesion force, friction, terminal group bonding, contact angle, antibacterial.1. INTRODUCTIONThe uses of SAMs in biomedicine utilities areincreasing rapidly, such as in biosensors,nonfouling surfaces, bioactive surfaces, and drugdelivery [1, 2]. Octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS)monolayer is one of the most extensively studiedself-assembled monolayer [3-5]. Therefore, how toimprove the adhesion and anti-bacterialperformance of SAMs film becomes an attractivetopic in order to enhance device application andreliability. Bierbum [6, 7] noted that the substratesurface water layers are an important factor in theformation of OTS films. Bierbum explained thatOTS molecules initially spread vertically onsubstrate surfaces and been clustered after locatingactivation positions. Afterwards, other OTSmolecules spread to the cluster edges and formislands. The molecules then spread outwards andcause adsorbed molecules to form connections,finally forming tightly connected monolayers. In1998, Vaillant et al. [8] used atomic forcemicroscopy (AFM) and a Fourier-transforminfrared spectrometer (FTIR) to observe the processby which OTS molecules form films on substratesurfaces. The results showed that a larger amount ofwater in the solutions cause the OTS molecules toundergo a hydrolysis reaction and producepolymerization within the solution. Cloud-shapedor island-shaped molecule films form throughoutthe solution. In the contrast, solutions withcomparatively low proportions of water exhibitpoint distribution and OTS molecules igrowchaotically into liquid-like form. While the surfacediffusion makes OTS molecules absorbingmolecules within the solution, the tightly knit,island-shaped structures are formed by messymolecule films. Resch [9] also used AFM andfound that OTS molecules initially grow messilyand irregularly. With the passage of time,molecules covering the surface spread horizontallyand ultimately form tightly arranged molecular102 13 th International Conference on Tribology – Serbiatrib’13