Contact angle of polyethylene on copper and its effect on adhesion

Abstract To determine whether the large differences in adhesion for polyethylene coatings applied to different types of copper surface could be attributed to changes in work of adhesion or wettability, the variations of contact angle with time has been measured for molten polyethylene droplets on these surfaces. It is concluded from these measurements that the low peel strengths obtained on certain substrates cannot be accounted for by a low work of adhesion of poor wetting of the surface.