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Cold Atmospheric Plasma: Sources, Processes, and Applications
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Cold Atmospheric Plasma: Sources, Processes, and Applications

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 10895

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Rino Morent

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Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: plasma technology; non-thermal plasma; plasma surface engineering; plasma catalysis; plasma for environmental applications; plasma for biomedical applications
Prof. Dr. Matteo Gherardi

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 24, 40131 Bologna, Italy
Interests: plasma processing of materials; plasma assisted synthesis of nanomaterials; plasma medicine; plasma physics; atmospheric pressure plasmas; thermal plasmas, non-equilibrium plasmas; plasma sources
Dr. Pieter Cools

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Research Unit Plasma Technology, Department of Applied Physics, , Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Interests: plasma surface engineering; biomaterials; 3D additive manufacturing; plasma polymerization; plasma chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,

Cold atmospheric plasma (CAPs) have earned their place within the broader field of plasma technology, branching out in many other major disciplines, including catalysis, biomedical engineering, medicine, energy applications, waste treatment, agriculture, etc., thanks to their versatility in design, ease of implementation, low cost and unique chemical composition.

This Special Issue in particular will focus on CAPs used for surface modification processes. Surface and interface enhancement of materials in general continues to generate a lot of interest in any discipline, as it allows to maintain interesting bulk material properties of low-tech materials such as strength, weight and elasticity while making them suitable for high-tech applications. Among the wide selection of surface modification technologies currently used in industry, CAPs stand out as they are non-invasive, solvent-free, fast, highly efficient and easily implemented onto in-line systems. Depending on the envisioned end-application, plasma activation and/or plasma polymerization processes have proven their added value. Therefore, both technologies will be part of the focus of this special issue.

The overall goal of this Special Issue is to gather research operating at the frontiers of plasma surface modification technology to give a clear perspective to both experts and non-experts on the current trends in the field, covering the employed plasma sources, the innovative processes under development, the envisioned applications and the future challenges to be tackled by the scientific community.

Prof. Dr. Rino Morent
Dr. Matteo Gherardi
Dr. Pieter Cools
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Keywords

  • Cold atmospheric plasma
  • Dielectric barrier discharge
  • Atmospheric pressure plasma jet
  • Plasma polymerization
  • Plasma activation
  • Plasma coating technology…

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Practical Design of a High-Voltage Pulsed Power Supply Implementing SiC Technology for Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Reactors
by Jacek Kołek and Marcin Hołub
Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(7), 1451; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9071451 - 06 Apr 2019
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Non-thermal plasma reactors offer numerous advantages and are used in a wide variety of applications. Exemplary fields of use include exhaust gas or water quality improvement, surface processing, agriculture, or medical processes. Two of the most popular discharge chamber constructions are dielectric barrier [...] Read more.
Non-thermal plasma reactors offer numerous advantages and are used in a wide variety of applications. Exemplary fields of use include exhaust gas or water quality improvement, surface processing, agriculture, or medical processes. Two of the most popular discharge chamber constructions are dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) and pulsed corona discharge (PCD, barrierless) plasma reactors. Various power supply constructions are presented in the literature with varying complexity and operating principles. A simple, power electronic, pulsed power supply construction is presented in this work, implementing resonant power switch operation, modern silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors and a Tesla coil-like transformer design. The power supply construction is immune to short circuits in the reactor and can be used for both types of reactor constructions. The principles of operation, simulation results, and prototype test verifications are presented with main power supply characteristics. Full article
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Optical, Electrical, and Surface Properties of Cu/Plasma Polymer Fluorocarbon Nanocomposite Thin Film Fabricated Using Metal/Polymer Composite Target
by Sung Hyun Kim, Mac Kim, Jae Seong Park and Sang-Jin Lee
Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(7), 1296; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9071296 - 28 Mar 2019
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We propose a new method of fabricating metal–polymer composite targets for sputtering, which makes it easier to control the composition and enables the homogeneous and reproducible fabrication of metal–polymer nanocomposites over large areas. Using Cu/polytetrafluoroethylene composite targets containing 20, 50, and 80 wt.% [...] Read more.
We propose a new method of fabricating metal–polymer composite targets for sputtering, which makes it easier to control the composition and enables the homogeneous and reproducible fabrication of metal–polymer nanocomposites over large areas. Using Cu/polytetrafluoroethylene composite targets containing 20, 50, and 80 wt.% Cu, Cu/plasma polymer fluorocarbon (PPFC) nanocomposite thin films were prepared by radio-frequency (RF) sputtering. Targets with 80 wt.% Cu were conductive; moreover, sputtering was possible not only with RF but also with mid-range frequency (MF) and direct current (DC) power sources. The nanocomposite thin film deposited by MF and DC power using an 80 wt.% Cu target showed near-metallic characteristics, exhibited absorption peaks at 618 and 678 nm, and had a surface resistance of 2 × 104 and 34.55 Ω/sq, respectively. We also analyzed the structure and composition of the Cu/PPFC nanocomposite films by X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The described metal–polymer targets can advance the applications and commercialization of nanocomposite thin films. Full article
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