J. Van Den Brand

TL;DR: The coordinative bonding of a monofunctional carboxylic acid group to the oxide surface was found to be not stable in the presence of water, while a bifunctional vehicle based group could resist displacement by water for a prolonged period of time.

TL;DR: In this article, the photoelectron core level binding energies of different, aluminum oxide thin layer surfaces have been evaluated with X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS), while taking into consideration the initial and final state effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of five different aluminium oxide layers has been investigated using XPS, and the oxide layers were made by oxidizing aluminium in a vacuum, with an alkaline and acidic pretreatment and in boiling water.

TL;DR: In this paper, two different methods were used to improve the adhesion and durability of a commonly used epoxy coating on an aluminium substrate by applying a thin polymeric layer, having a thickness of around 10nm, on the aluminium substrate prior to application of the epoxy, which resulted in a cured, mixed poly(ethylene-alt-maleic anhydride)/epoxy interphasial region between coating and substrate.

TL;DR: The Bonding of two types of ester group-containing molecules with a set of different oxide layers on aluminum has been investigated using infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy to find out what type of esters-oxide bond is formed and whether this is influenced by changes in the composition and chemistry of the oxide.