Plasma Modifications of Polymers and
Applications
Course Objectives
The course is addressed to scientists, students, engineers and
industrials in material technology, plasma science, engineering,
biology, medicine. It is aimed to transfer the know how in industrial
applications of cold plasma technology for the material treatments
in several fields, such as biomaterials and medical devices,
food packaging, corrosion protection, electronics, optics, automotive
components, plastic treatments, membranes and filtration, etc.
Course Description
Introduction to low pressure plasma chemistry; plasma jargon;
surface modifications by plasma processes; electrical structure
of glow discharges; plasma sources; reactors architectures and
potential distributions; optical diagnostics of plasmas; PE-CVD
and plasma treatment mechanisms; surface analysis of plasma-processed
surfaces; activation of polymers by means of plasma-grafting
of polar groups; PE-CVD from fluorocarbon to organosilicon monomers;
barrier films; super-hydrophobic coatings; hydrophilic treatments;
immobilization of molecules onto polymers; non-aging treatments
of polymers; paper treatments; corrosion inhibitor films; metal-polymer
adhesion promotion; plasma processes for biomedical applications;
anti-microbic coatings; selected examples of process control
by means of combined surface and plasma diagnostics; scaling
reactors from laboratory to industrial size.
Instructors:
Riccardo d’Agostino (director) co-editor of Plasma Processes
and Polymers (Wiley VCH)
Pietro Favia, Francesco Fracassi
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Professor of Chemistry and Director of
the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bari.
Coeditor of Plasma Processes and Polymers (Wiley VCH),
former editor of Plasmas and Polymers (Kluwer- Plenum).
Author of 180 scientific papers, 12 patents, editor of
4 books and 4 international proceedings.
Research fields: plasma modifications of materials, i.e.
plasma etching for microelectronics,hydrophobic and superhydrophobic
ctgs, non fouling ctgs, anti-bacterial films, blood-compatible
surfaces, contact guidance of cells onto microstructured
polymers, transparent barrier films, polymer activation
for metal adhesion, nanostructured surfaces of polymers,
etc.
Honorary member of the Italian Vacuum Association. Member
of the management committee of the Plasma Science Technique
Division of IUVSTA. Awarded by the Japanese Chemical Society
in 1996 with the Minakata-Avogadro prize. Member of management
comittee for the EU Community project COST-PISE. Chairman
of IUPAC Committee on "Plasma Chemistry" (1989-1991).
Director and instructor of IUPAC courses on low pressure
plasmas in Bejing (1997), Prague (1999), Orleans (2001),
Taormina (2003). Chairman of: 16th Int. Symp. On Plasma
Chemistry, ISPC-16, held in June 2003, Taormina, 9th Int.
Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, ISPC-9, Pugnochiuso, Italy
(1989), Plasmas and Polymers, ACS San Francisco 1996,
Plasma Deposition and Treatments of Polymers, MRS Boston
1998, 1st Alpine Symp. on Plasma Processing of Polymers,
Campitello di Fassa, Italy (1999), NATO ASI on Plasma
Treatments and Deposition of Polymers, Acquafredda di
Maratea, Italy (1996). |
Questions? dagostino@area.ba.cnr.it
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