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Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on December 8, 2014
There is always a tendency to regard the major players in large markets as being a static background against which the froth of smaller companies and the rapid dance of customer innovation plays out. But if we turn our lens toward the major server vendors (who are now also storage and networking as well as software vendors), we see that the relatively flat industry revenues hide almost continuous churn. Turn back the clock slightly more than five years ago, and the market was dominated by three vendors, HP, Dell and IBM. In slightly more than five years, IBM has divested itself of highest velocity portion of its server business, Dell is no longer a public company, Lenovo is now a major player in servers, Cisco has come out of nowhere to mount a serious challenge in the x86 server segment, and HP has announced that it intends to split itself into two companies.
And it hasn't stopped. Two recent events, the fracturing of the VCE consortium and the formerly unthinkable hook-up of IBM and Cisco illustrate the urgency with which existing players are seeking differential advantage, and reinforce our contention that the whole segment of converged and integrated infrastructure remains one of the active and profitable segments of the industry.
EMC's recent acquisition of Cisco's interest in VCE effectively acknowledged what most customers have been telling us for a long time – that VCE had become essentially an EMC-driven sales vehicle to sell storage, supported by VMware (owned by EMC) and Cisco as a systems platform. EMC's purchase of Cisco's interest also tacitly acknowledges two underlying tensions in the converged infrastructure space:
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on November 5, 2014
Dell today announced its new FX system architecture, and I am decidedly impressed.
Dell FX is a 2U flexible infrastructure building block that allows infrastructure architects to compose an application-appropriate server and storage infrastructure out of the following set of resources:
All in all, an attractive and flexible packaging scheme for infrastructure that needs to be tailored to specific combinations of server, storage and network configurations. Probably an ideal platform to support the Nutanix software suite that Dell is reselling as well. My guess is that other system design groups are thinking along these lines, but this is now a pretty unique package, and merits attention from infrastructure architects.
Forrester clients, I've published a Quick Take report on this, Quick Take: Dell's FX Architecture Holds Promise To Power Modern Services
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on February 21, 2013
With the next major spin of Intel server CPUs due later this year, HP's customers have been waiting for HP's next iteration of its core c-Class BladeSystem, which has been on the market for almost 7 years without any major changes to its basic architecture. IBM made a major enhancement to its BladeCenter architecture, replacing it with the new Pure Systems, and Cisco's offering is new enough that it should last for at least another three years without a major architectural refresh, leaving HP customers to wonder when HP was going to introduce its next blade enclosure, and whether it would be compatible with current products.
At their partner conference this week, HP announced a range of enhancements to its blade product line that on combination represent a strong evolution of the current product while maintaining compatibility with current investments. This positioning is similar to what IBM did with its BladeCenter to BladeCenter-H upgrade, preserving current customer investment and extending the life of the current server and peripheral modules for several more years.
Tech Stuff – What Was Announced
Among the goodies announced on February 19 was an assortment of performance and functionality enhancements, including:
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on January 13, 2013
When I returned to Forrester in mid-2010, one of the first blog posts I wrote was about Oracle's new roadmap for SPARC and Solaris, catalyzed by numerous client inquiries and other interactions in which Oracle's real level of commitment to future SPARC hardware was the topic of discussion. In most cases I could describe the customer mood as skeptical at best, and panicked and committed to migration off of SPARC and Solaris at worst. Nonetheless, after some time spent with Oracle management, I expressed my improved confidence in the new hardware team that Oracle had assembled and their new roadmap for SPARC processors after the successive debacles of the UltraSPARC-5 and Rock processors under Sun's stewardship.
Two and a half years later, it is obvious that Oracle has delivered on its commitments regarding SPARC and is continuing its investments in SPARC CPU and system design as well as its Solaris OS technology. The latest evolution of SPARC technology, the SPARC T5 and the soon-to-be-announced M5, continue the evolution and design practices set forth by Oracle's Rick Hetherington in 2010 — incremental evolution of a common set of SPARC cores, differentiation by variation of core count, threads and cache as opposed to fundamental architecture, and a reliable multi-year performance progression of cores and system scalability.
Geek Stuff – New SPARC Hardware
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on June 5, 2012
Earlier this week at its Discover customer event, HP announced a significant set of improvements to its already successful c-Class BladeSystem product line, which, despite continuing competitive pressure from IBM and the entry of Cisco into the market three years ago, still commands approximately 50% of the blade market. The significant components of this announcement fall into four major functional buckets – improved hardware, simplified and expanded storage features, new interconnects and I/O options, and serviceability enhancements. Among the highlights are:
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on April 20, 2012
IBM Jumps On CI With Both Feet
Over the last couple of years, IBM, despite having a rich internal technology ecosystem and a number of competitive blade and CI offerings, has not had a comprehensive integrated offering to challenge HP's CloudSystem Matrix and Cisco's UCS. This past week IBM effectively silenced its critics and jumped to the head of the CI queue with the announcement of two products, PureFlex and PureApplication, the results of a massive multi-year engineering investment in blade hardware, systems management, networking, and storage integration. Based on a new modular blade architecture and new management architecture, the two products are really more of a continuum of a product defined by the level of software rather than two separate technology offerings.
PureFlex is the base product, consisting of the new hardware (which despite having the same number of blades as the existing HS blade products, is in fact a totally new piece of hardware), which integrates both BNT-based networking as well as a new object-based management architecture which can manage up to four chassis and provide a powerful setoff optimization, installation, and self-diagnostic functions for the hardware and software stack up to and including the OS images and VMs. In addition IBM appears to have integrated the complete suite of Open Fabric Manager and Virtual Fabric for remapping MAC/WWN UIDs and managing VM networking connections, and storage integration via the embedded V7000 storage unit, which serves as both a storage pool and an aggregation point for virtualizing external storage. The laundry list of features and functions is too long to itemize here, but PureFlex, especially with its hypervisor-neutrality and IBM's Cloud FastStart option, is a complete platform for an enterprise private cloud or a horizontal VM compute farm, however you choose to label a shared VM utility.
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on November 16, 2011
This week AMD finally released their AMD 6200 and 4200 series CPUs. These are the long-awaited server-oriented Interlagos and Valencia CPUs, based on their new "Bulldozer" core, offering up to 16 x86 cores in a single socket. The announcement was targeted at (drum roll, one guess per customer only) … "The Cloud." AMD appears to be positioning its new architectures as the platform of choice for cloud-oriented workloads, focusing on highly threaded throughput oriented benchmarks that take full advantage of its high core count and unique floating point architecture, along with what look like excellent throughput per Watt metrics.
At the same time it is pushing the now seemingly mandatory "cloud" message, AMD is not ignoring the meat-and-potatoes enterprise workloads that have been the mainstay of server CPUs sales –virtualization, database, and HPC, where the combination of many cores, excellent memory bandwidth and large memory configurations should yield excellent results. In its competitive comparisons, AMD targets Intel's 5640 CPU, which it claims represents Intel's most widely used Xeon CPU, and shows very favorable comparisons in regards to performance, price and power consumption. Among the features that AMD cites as contributing to these results are:
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on September 12, 2011
Last year at VMworld I noted Xsigo Systems, a small privately held company at VMworld showing their I/O Director technology, which delivereda subset of HP Virtual Connect or Cisco UCS I/O virtualization capability in a fashion that could be consumed by legacy rack-mount servers from any vendor. I/O Director connects to the server with one or more 10 G Ethernet links, and then splits traffic out into enterprise Ethernet and FC networks. On the server side, the applications, including VMware, see multiple virtual NICs and HBAs courtesy of Xsigo's proprietary virtual NIC driver.
Controlled via Xsigo's management console, the server MAC and WWNs can be programmed, and the servers can now connect to multiple external networks with fewer cables and substantially lower costs for NIC and HBA hardware. Virtualized I/O is one of the major transformative developments in emerging data center architecture, and will remain a theme in Forrester's data center research coverage.
This year at VMworld, Xsigo announced a major expansion of their capabilities – Xsigo Server Fabric, which takes the previous rack-scale single-Xsigo switch domains and links them into a data-center-scale fabric. Combined with improvements in the software and UI, Xsigo now claims to offer one-click connection of any server resource to any network or storage resource within the domain of Xsigo's fabric. Most significantly, Xsigo's interface is optimized to allow connection of VMs to storage and network resources, and to allow the creation of private VM-VM links.
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on July 13, 2011
Not to be left out of the announcement fever that has gripped vendors recently, Cisco today announced several updates to their UCS product line aimed at easing potential system bottlenecks by improving the whole I/O chain between the network and the servers, and improving management, including:
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on June 7, 2011
HP this week really stirred up the Converged Infrastructure world by introducing three new solution offerings, one an incremental evolution of an existing offering and the other two representing new options which will put increased pressure on competitors. The trio includes:


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Thank you so much Stush. They are very beautiful plants, I love the pattern in the variegation on Bantel's sensation and the extra you included; Dwarf hahnii marginated.
I have been reading more about Bantel's sensation and so far I understand that....
1. It loves to get a warmer brighter spot (in winter).
2. Cold sensitive/ really hated cold (so watering should be less+ let it dry between watering in my opinion). What is the minimum temperature for it, especially in winter indoor?
3.The leaves are very susceptible to rust/ avoid splashing water onto the leaves. Is this true?
I am new to Sans and open to any suggestions for both Bantel's sensation and Dwarf hahnii marginated. Here are the pictures:
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Don't they look nice! I think you will enjoy growing these two for a long time.
I think you have the right ideas on growing them. They should be fine if you keep them inside in a warm spot. Water about every three weeks or so in the winter. More water in the summer when it's hot.
Good advise. I have lost some during winter due to 60 degree temps. The ones I had keep at min. 70's did well. My one great window is too cold during winter. This is where I had my greatest loss. All the ones I kept in my old fish tank (55 gal.) did well and with a few 20 w.lamps on yet. One shop lite double bulb lamps with 32 W. T8 bulbs is all a whole stand full would need.
As far as water on the leaves. Anything goes during summer but winter is different. Keep dry and as with all sans, don't get water in their crowns or leaves if possible. Sounds like you know what your doing. Have fun with them.
Just my 2 cents that last winter I kept a small Bantel's Sensation in a room where it was usually in the 50s, though sometimes on the weekends I turned the heat up. The only windows were west facing and mostly blocked by the neighbor's house. I did not water the plant until spring when the house was warmer. It survived. It's not the greatest looking specimen in the world, but it's alive. Come to think of it, it hasn't grown much this summer either. I guess my point is the plant can put up with some pretty dismal conditions as long as you're okay with it just sitting there like a stone (and treating it like one). That was more than 2 cents, sorry.


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Sinead O'Connor is to marry her fourth husband in Las Vegas on Thursday.
His name is Barry Herridge and he is believed to be an addiction counselor for children. Sinead appeared on the Ian Dempsey breakfast show on Today FM yesterday where she claimed she had no exciting news to share but today she and her fiance Barry rang the station to announce the nuptials.
Ian wrote on his twitter page: "So Sinead O'Connor was holding back yesterday. Boyfriend Barry Herridge got back to us today to reveal that they will wed tomorrow...
"And it's Sinead's birthday tomorrow too. Congrats to them both. And Sinead's new album is sounding great too."
She wrote on her blog: "With enormous joy myself and my beloved boyfriend Barry Herridge will be getting married tomorrow, December 8th 2011 at 'an un-disclosed location' in my absolute dream wedding ceremony. We will post a photo or two here on the site as soon as possible afterward. Very happy girl."
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"It's very much a rumination on the life and death of Robert Mapplethorpe," Ludwig said of the exhibit. "So there are a lot of objects in the exhibition that very much relate to his life. We've received things like Robert's slippers that have his initials on them, and photographs of Robert from throughout his life. So it really focuses on the relationship between these two artists.
"There are medals, necklaces that Robert wore," Ludwig continued. "There is an inkwell. There are small elements that will be presented in cases in the exhibition. It's presented very much like an art installation. They're not necessarily presented as historical objects but as elements that are part of Patti's life."
"And we have an installation within the show called 'Infirmary,' which is all steel beds that are references to the beds Robert spent the end of his life in and that many people who died from AIDS passed away in. They are actual steel beds acquired by her." (Mapplethorpe died from AIDS in 1989.)
The show will have several photographs by Mapplethorpe with text by Smith – of the sea, a boat and a sculpture. (None was in The Perfect Moment.) "They're very beautiful," Ludwig said.
Cincinnati Playhouse just opened Thunder Knocking on the Door, a show it staged in 1999 and sold a boatload of tickets — the most for any musical it's presented in the past two decades! I was there on Thursday night for the opening, and this is a drop-dead gorgeous production — costumes, sets, lighting and sound by Broadway designers, and a cast of five who all have star-power. Even better, they form a wonderful musical ensemble when they need to. Keith Glover's play is a fable about the Blues: Marvell Thunder is a mystical presence who years earlier lost a "cuttin' contest" to a fellow named Jaguar Dupree, and now he's back to even the score "where the two roads meet," somewhere near Bessemer, Alabama. But Jaguar's passed, survived by his wife (twice widowed since then) and his twin brother. Her and Jaguar's twin children, Jaguar Jr. and Glory are musical and each have magical guitars that he bequeathed to them. Jr. has lost his to Thunder, and now he's coming for the other one. But it's complicated, because Thunder is turning to stone because it's been so long since he's been in love. All this is played out to a wonderful Blues score, most of it by singer and composer Keb' Mo'. There's a great band backing them up, and to make this tale all the more magical, among its technical team is an "illusion designer." You'll be asking, "How'd they do that?" more than once. I gave it a Critic's Pick, and you should get your tickets right away. 513-421k-3888.
Know Theatre's production of the recent off-Broadway and Broadway Rock musical hit, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a youthful mix of political commentary, driving Rock performances, history, humor and sober observations on the will of the people — just what we've come expect from Know Theatre. Not many musicals begin with the cast flipping the bird at the audience, but then not many musicals are like this one, spinning a tale of America's seventh president to in-your-face Indie Rock tunes. This is Bloody Bloody's first professional regional production. I gave it a Critic's Pick, and the show is proving to be a big hit for Know. (Through May 12.) Box office: 513-300-5669.
Pump Boys & Dinettes at the Covington's Carnegie Center is something like an off-Broadway classic (it had a brief Broadway run) from the early 1980s. Set in a filling station that's also a diner, it's a framework for downhome Country tunes and cornpone humor. Not much of a story, but a talented cast makes this one a lot of light-hearted fun. This is the final weekend. Box office: 859-957-1940.
Covedale Center is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's but Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I saw it last Friday and can recommend it as a production that does justice to a piece of entertaining fluff. Director Tim Perrino has assembled a fast-paced production with some fine voices. The jaunty show, which covers the familiar tale in about 90 minutes (including intermission), has fun with (and parodies) various musical styles — from Elvis-styled Rock and Western Swing to French ballads and calypso. Stone walls and palms slide back to reveal a sphinx and a smoking entrance for the Pharaoh (aka Elvis). It's not groundbreaking in any way, but it is the kind of solid entertainment the Covedale has presented for 10 seasons. Through May 13. Box office: 513-241-6550.
And while I'm talking about lighthearted shows, make not that a tour of Mamma Mia, cramming tons of ABBA tunes into an implausible but funny story, makes a one-week stop at the Aronoff starting on Tuesday. It would be hard not to have a good time at any production of Mamma Mia. Tickets: 513-621-2787.
Each week in Stage Door, Rick Pender offers theater tips for the weekend, often with a few pieces of theater news.
If you Google search "John McClellan," you'll find the late Democratic senator from Arkansas and the 19th century chemist. So what is comedian, Akron native and onetime Cincinnatian John McClellan — who brings his "Punk Rock" stand-up tour, the Fuck All Comedy Ball into Northside's tiny music club/bar, The Comet, this Saturday — doing to distance himself from his fellow McClellans?
"None of those guys are funny," says the funny McClellan. "That's why I had to get boozecoma.com, because some guy already had johnmcclellan.com, and asking people to spell my last name was a chore. They're working on old cars or selling real estate and I'm just out there trying to bring the jokes to the people."
Kristy Kemper, a senior at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, creates visually beautiful works of art filled with vibrant, lovely colors and stylistic, flowing Art Nouveau shapes and forms. The artist draws attention to the world of animals and their behaviors drawing us into a magical, beautiful and sometimes dangerous world.
If you're still working on your checklist of holiday shows, there have been several added performances for shows at Know Theatre, Ensemble Theatre and other venues you should keep in mind.
Listen up, fans of crafty, post-modern fiction: Local author/professor/all-around good guy Michael Griffith christens his freshly minted new book, Trophy, 7 p.m. tonight at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
If you've ever wondered why musical theater fans think of Oklahoma! as the show that launched the "Golden Age" of musical theater, you need to get a ticket for this weekend's CCM performance of the 1943 classic by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. I attended the opening last night, and it's a stunning production firing on all cylinders. The cast is first-rate, especially senior John Riddle as handsome cowboy Curly McLain and Chris Blem as threatening Jud Fry. Julia Johanos is a feisty Laurey Williams, and CCM and Broadway veteran Pamela Myers comes back to where she got her start to play Aunt Eller, full of wisdom, piss and vinegar.
Under the old system, grants of $3,000-$5,000 were awarded to local artists. Now, the Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellowship Committee will provide more impactful grants of $6,000 to seven different artists.
The process kicked off at the beginning of the year when artists were invited to submit a letter and resume to City Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan before Jan. 15. The invitation was open to artists of all different disciplines but they had to be residents of Cincinnati throughout the program (July 1, 2012-May 31, 2013).
After more than 100 applications applied, twelve finalists were announced on Tuesday.
"We were blown away at the number of applications," Todd Wurzbacher, Chair of the Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee, said in a press release. He presented the list of finalists in Quinlivan's Strategic Growth Committee today.
The twelve finalists are Jesse Mooney-Bullock, Tatiana Berman, Pam Kravetz, Karen Heyl, Melissa Godoy, Guy Michael Davis, Tonya Matthews, Terri Kern, Casey Riordan Millard, Brad Austin Smith, Rondle West and Nathaniel Chaitkin.
The finalists will be interviewed by the Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee members, who will then choose the final seven artists to receive awards. The final awards will be given to seven artists on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 11:30 a.m. on the steps of City Hall.
"I'm excited we have visual artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and even a puppeteer in our finalists," Quinlivan said in a press release. Quinlivan got council support to create the CAAF program. "More than 125 Cincinnati artists applied for the newly created Arts Ambassador Fellowship, proof that Cincinnati is a strong arts city," she said.
I think there are few more satisfying segments of musical theater than the opening 10 minutes of the musical Chicago, which is in town for a brief run at the Aronoff Center. The first number, "All That Jazz," gives you an encyclopedia of the stylistic dance moves of iconic choreographer Bob Fosse, followed by "Funny Honey," an introduction of Roxie Hart, who murders her low-life lover. A few minutes later, "Cell Block Tango" provides the set-up for the colorful women who are in prison for their acts of violence. The touring production stars Terra MacLeod as Velma Kelly and Bianca Marroquin as Roxie Hart (the roles played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger in the Academy Award-winning film) and they dance and sing with the requisite zest. Chicago opens with a quick speech defining it as containing "violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery — all the things we hold near and dear to our hearts." If you're looking for a stylish musical with nary a whiff of the holidays, this is the show to see this weekend. It runs through Sunday. Tickets: 800-982-2787.
Cincinnati finally got its first "pop-up shop," a holiday effort by local merchants to band together to take over unused retail space in Over-the-Rhine for a short period and then vacate when done. See photos from its opening weekend here.
'Tis also the season for pop-up theater, smaller productions that are squeezed in between performances of mainstage shows. One opens tonight at Know Theatre of Cincinnati.


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A method of treating a polymer film to alter its physical properties, comprising exposing the film to an ionized plasma in a vacuum environment with the ionizing gas producing one of surface etching, polymer cross-linking and coating of the film.
1. A method of cross-linking surface molecules in a polymer film comprising the steps of:
placing said film in a vacuum chamber containing a pair of electrodes;
filling said chamber with a treatment gas under a pressure of 0.2-0.7 Torr;
applying a voltage to said electrodes to initiate a discharge in and ionization of said treatment gas; and
exposing said film to said ionized treatment gas for a predetermined period of time, thereby cross-linking polymer molecules in a surface layer of said film.
2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said treatment gas is an inert gas.
3. A method as in claim 1, wherein said treatment gas is selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, neon, helium and argon.
4. A method as in claim 1, wherein said film is selected from the group consisting of linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, high density polyethylene, high molecular weight high density polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene.
5. A method as in claim 1, wherein said treatment gas is in a concentration of 1�10-5 to 4�10-5 gram moles per liter in said chamber.
6. A method as in claim 1, wherein the temperature of said ionized treatment gas is in a range of 50� to 120� C.
This is a continuation of copending application Ser. No. 566,724, filed on Dec. 29, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,436,271.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to a method of treating a polymer film with a low temperature, e.g., 50�-120� Celsius, plasma to improve its physical properties, such as tensile strength.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
Plastics films have attained a considerable degree of commercial success and are used in a wide variety of products. One such use is in the formation of bags where the film is subjected to considerable forces when in use. One film strength characteristic which is important, particularly in bag manufacture, is tensile strength. However, it has been found that tensile strength of a film can be adversely affected by the presence of low molecular weight polymer species which migrate to the film surface during melt crystallization of the polymer forming the film. These short chain molecules have fewer polymer entanglements than the underlying bulk material and therefore film failure is more easily initiated at a lower stress level than would be the case with the underlying film bulk material. A film failure initiated in the surface layer easily propagates into the underlying bulk material. In addition, the extrusion of molten polymer into a high flow of cooling air, such as occurs in blown film extrusion, causes surface embrittlement through oxidation. A brittle polymer surface coating on a more ductile substrate also reduces physical properties of a film, e.g., tensile strength, by increasing the ease of fracture initiation.
Several techniques, such as molecular orientation, uniaxial and biaxial stretching, etc. have been used to increase physical properties of a film. In general, however, these strength increasing techniques do not address the inherent weakness problems caused by a surface layer of a film which is more easily fractured than an underlying bulk material layer.
One general object of the invention is the provision of a method of treating a polymer film with a plasma environment to alter its physical properties.
Another, more specific, object of the present invention is the provision of a method of treating a polymer film with a plasma environment to alter its physical properties by removing weak or brittle surface layers thereof and increasing its inherent tensile strength.
These objects are obtained in a method which comprises the steps of transporting a polymer film into a vacuum treatment chamber filled with a low concentration treatment gas, e.g., 1�10-5 to 4�10-5 gram moles per liter, at an absolute pressure of 0.2-0.7 Torr, ionizing the treatment gas to create a reactive medium to which the film is exposed, exposing the film to the reactive medium for a predetermined period of time and thereafter removing the film from the treatment chamber. The method can be carried out on a continuous or discontinuous basis, and sequential treatments with different treatment gases can be done. The plasma gas can be an inorganic compound, e.g., O2, N2, Ar, or organic compounds, e.g., silanes, saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, and aromatics. Modification of the film properties occurs by etching, cross-linking or coating of the film surface, depending on the treatment gas employed. To improve the tensile properties of the film, an O2 treatment gas, which etches away a film surface layer, is preferred.
The method of the invention provides distinct property improvements with little or no material consumption. In addition, with etching, film downgauging can be achieved, while improving physical properties such as tensile strength.
The method of the invention and its advantages and features will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description, which is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus used to carry out the method of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a front cross-sectional view of a treatment chamber used in the method of the invention; and
FIG. 3 is a side view of the treatment chamber.
FIG. 1 illustrates an apparatus which is used to practice the method of the invention. A vacuum treatment chamber 11 contains electrodes 12 which are spaced by a fixed distance, e.g., 18". A film 14 to be treated is disposed between the electrodes. The treatment chamber is connected to a vacuum pump 23 through a vacuum trap 21. Vacuum trap 21 is a well known device which functions to collect condensible gases as a liquid, removing them from the treatment chamber 11 exit stream. Vacuum pump 23 is used to evacuate the treatment chamber. One of the electrodes 12 is grounded, while the other is connected to one output of a power transformer 19, the other output of which is also grounded.
Before film treatment the vacuum chamber 11 is purged one or more times with a treatment gas. The treatment gas originates from one of a plurality of selectable sources, for example, an inert gas source 13, and an unsaturated monomer gas source 15 by means of respective selection valves 20,22 and flow meters. Another source of a monomer treatment gas 17, which is also selectable, is also provided and connected to the treatment chamber through a precision metering valve 25. Source 17 provides a monomer gas vapor from a liquid material, e.g., from a flask containing 100-150 ml of liquid, with the vapor pressure thereof being controlled by the temperature of a temperature bath 18 which surrounds the flask. Opening one of valves 20, 22 or 25 controls the application of a selected treatment gas to the vacuum chamber 11. Alternatively, a selected gas mixture formed by gases from two or more of the sources 13, 15 and 17 can be obtained by appropriate operation of valves 20, 22 and 25.
The treatment chamber 11 is illustrated in greater detail in FIGS. 2 and 3. A film 14 to be treated is unwound from a supply roll 31, passes over a guide roll 33 and is wound on a take-up roll 35. The film passes between the electrodes 12 in passing from the supply 31 to take-up rolls 35. The film can be driven through chamber 11 either continuously or intermittently by a motor 37 which is connected to the supply and take-up rolls 31,35 by a driving assembly 38.
For film surface treatment, the treatment chamber 11 is initially purged 2 or 3 times, with the selected treatment gas by selectively opening one of the valves 20,22,25 and thereafter evacuating the chamber. The treatment gas then fills the chamber under 0.2-0.7 Torr absolute pressure. The treatment gas within the chamber is at a relatively low concentration in the range of 1�10-5 to 4�10-5 gram moles per liter. The power supplied by transformer 19 is then increased at the given gas pressure to cause an electrical discharge. Typically, the required power will range from 10 to several hundred watts. The resulting ionized gas becomes the reactive medium. By varying the drive speed of film 14 through the treatment chamber 11, the exposure time of the film to the plasma can be varied from a few seconds to several minutes, thus providing a convenient means for varying the treatment level. Thermal degredation of the polymeric film is prevented because the plasma reaction is carried out at low temperature, e.g., about 50�-120� Celsius, due to the reduced gas pressure (0.2 to 0.7 Torr) and the use of a low concentration (1�10-5 to 4�10-5 gram moles per liter) of ionized gas.
The plasma gas can be inorganic or organic compounds. As examples of inorganic gas compounds, oxygen, nitrogen, helium, neon and argon can be used. Exemplary organic compounds include silanes, saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons and aromatics.
The ionized gas causes modifications to occur at the film 14 surface by etching, cross-linking, or film coating, depending on the treatment gas which is used. For example, to improve the tensile properties of the film, an oxygen gas atmosphere is preferred, which results in an etching away of outer layers of the film. Typically, etching occurs to a depth of less than 1 micron. With O2 etching, low molecular weight polymer species which have migrated to the film surface during melt crystallization are removed, thereby increasing the stress level required to initiate film fracture. Brittle layers caused by surface oxidation, which occur during blown film extrusion, are also removed. If an ethylene gas is used as the treatment gas, surface polymerization of the film occurs, with the film then being coated with a polyethylene layer. Thus, it is possible to first use an oxygen gas plasma treatment to remove brittle surface layers from a film and then use an ethylene plasma treatment to produce a new polyethylene surface layer.
Various plastics films can be treated using the method of the invention, exemplary films being linear low density polyethylene, low density polyethylene, high density polyethylene, high molecular weight high density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and others. It is also possible to plasma treat nonplastic films and other articles. For example, an ethylene treatment gas can be used to form a polyethylene coating on paper and wood products.
While oxygen gas (O2) has been found to provide a surface etching phenomena, the use of argon gas (Ar) has been found to induce cross-linking of the surface polymer. The cross-linking phenomenon has been observed with various other inert gases, such as helium and neon. Organic monomers, when used as the treatment gas, provide surface coatings on the polymer film. Coatings may be applied in the manner described above by first activating the film surface by the use of an organic or inorganic plasma, e.g., oxygen gas, after which the surface is contacted with the reactive monomer gas as the treatment gas. It is also possible to first employ an ionized gas (plasma) treatment and then expose the film to a non-ionized treatment gas.
Table I illustrates experiments performed on seven polymer film samples using argon and oxygen as the first treatment gases and, in some instances, with hexane and ethylene used as subsequent treatment gases for film coating, while Table II illustrates the changes in physical properties which were observed. In Table I, coating treatment with a non-ionized gas is illustrated by the symbol (-) under the voltage, current and power columns.
TABLE I__________________________________________________________________________Experimental conditions During Plasma(Conditions During Coating) Gas Pressure Voltage Current Power Exposure TimeExampleFilm1 Plasma Gas Milli Torr Volts Milli Amps Watts Seconds__________________________________________________________________________1 LLDPE Argon 1000 300 100 30 20 (Hexane) (Conditions Not Recorded) 202 LLDPE Argon 600 500 120 60 15 (Ethylene) (6200) (-) (-) (-) (15)3 LLDPE Argon 610 440 120 53 724 LLDPE Argon 650 430 122 52 55 LLDPE Oxygen 590 700 70 49 726 LLDPE Oxygen 600 600 80 48 72 (Ethylene) (7000) (-) (-) (-) (72)7 HDPE Argon 620 500 142 71 26__________________________________________________________________________ 1 Resins Used LLDPE Dow 2045/HDPE DuPont 7810
TABLE II__________________________________________________________________________Effect of Plasma Surface Treatments of Physical Properties of Thin Films(Untreated Control) Elmendorf Puncture Plasma Coating Yield Ultimate Elong Toughness Tear ResistanceEx. Film Gas Gas psi psi % Ft-Lb/In3 Gram Lb__________________________________________________________________________1 LLDPE Argon Hexane 1965 4430 560 1200 129 -- (1763) (3529) (514) (962) (132)2 LLDPE Argon Ethylene 1883 4491 585 -- -- -- (1801) (3772) (540)3 LLDPE Argon -- 1770 3652 528 1013 128 -- (1793) (3529) (514) (962) (132)4 LLDPE Argon -- 1752 3718 537 1029 127 -- (1793) (3529) (514) (962) (132)5 LLDPE Oxygen -- 1742 4047 565 1165 132 -- (1793) (3529) (514) (962) (132)6 LLDPE Oxygen Ethylene 1733 4426 641 1305 123 (1793) (3529) (514) (962) (132)7 HDPE Argon -- 2967 6434 452 1475 14.1 1.62 (3031) (6666) (459) (1534) (14.5) (1.28)__________________________________________________________________________
As shown in the tables above, the cross-linking produced with an argon gas treatment alone (Examples 3, 4 and 7) produced minor changes in the tensile and tear properties of the films; however, the use of oxygen alone or with subsequent organic coating (Examples 5,6) produced a significant increase in tensile strength without changing elongation or tear properties. Sample 7 illustrates that although tensile strength remains constant after argon treatment (cross-linking), puncture resistance increased significantly (30%).
While preferred embodiments of the method of the invention have been described above, many modifications can be made thereto without deparating from its spirit and scope. Accordingly, the invention is not limited by the foregoing description, but is only limited by the scope of the appended claims.
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