Studying Chemisorption at Metal-Polymer Interfaces by Complementary Use of Attenuated Total Reflection-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) in the Kretschmann Geometry and Visible-Infrared Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy (SFG)

The molecular configuration and chemistry at the zinc/zinc oxide-polyester interface were studied by using two complementary spectroscopic techniques: attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. It was shown that ATR-FTIR should be considered as a (3D)...

Chemisorption of polyester coatings on zirconium-based conversion coated multi-metal substrates and their stability in aqueous environment

In this work, in-situ ATR-FTIR in the Kretschmann configuration is proposed as an interfacial sensitive technique able to probe molecular processes at the buried interface of an industrial relevant polyester primer. Zinc, aluminium and magnesium oxide were used to represent oxides present at galvanized steel sheets used in coil coating. Two...