Non-Thermal Plasma Technology for Polymeric Materials: Applications in Composites, Nanostructured Materials, and Biomedical Fields

ISBN-13: 9780128131527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 494 str.

Sabu Thomas; Miran Mozetic; Uros Cvelbar

Spis treści

1. Introduction to polymeric materials 2. Introduction to plasma 3. Plasma assisted polymer synthesis and processing 4. Plasma assisted polymer modifications 5. Plasma induced polymeric coatings 6. Application of plasma in printed surfaces and print quality 7. Plasma treatment of fibers and powders 8. Plasma treatment of polymeric membranes 9. Wettability Analysis and Water absorption studies of plasma activated polymeric materials 10. Microscopic Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials 11. Spectroscopic Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials 12. SIMS and Nano SIMS Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials 13. Scattering Techniques (Light, X-ray and Neutron) to analyse plasma activated polymeric materials 14. XPS Anaysis of plasma activated polymeric materials 15. Plasma modified polymeric materials for scaffolding of bone tissue engineering 16. Plasma modified polymeric materials for implant applications 17. Plasma modified polymeric materials for biosensors / bio device applications 18. Plasma modified polymeric materials for bio packaging

O autorze

Professor Sabu Thomas is currently the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and Director of the School of Energy Materials. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, and the Founder Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas has received international acclaim for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology.

Miran Mozetic is Professor and Head of the Department of Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the leader of a research group working on generation and characterization of highly reactive gaseous plasma, interdisciplinary research on interaction of non-equilibrium plasma with organic materials, plasma nanoscience, as well as development of different technologies for Uros Cvelbar is Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Head of the Department of Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He also works part-time as professor and teaches mostly postgraduate courses in Ljubljana, and some other European Universities like the University of Barcelona, Tomas Bata University, and others. Petr Spatenka is Head of the Department of Materials Engneering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is also Director of the Department of Applied Physics and Technoloy at the University of South Bohemia in Ceské Budejovice, and Co-owner of SufaceTreat, a company focused on plasma technology. Praveen KM is a Research Scholar, International and Inter University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and Université de Bretagne-Sud, France