Plasma Surface Engineering of Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 12897
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PECVD; plasma treatment of powders; adhesion enhancement; composite materials; functional surfaces
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plasma technologies have become a part of industrial applications that replace or compete with standard technologies. Their potential is expanding thanks to new plasma sources and new techniques. This opens new areas where these technologies have a potential for future application. Successful applications include adaptive tribology coatings working at high temperatures or the surface treatment of polymer-based nanoparticles. Another interesting area is hybrid technologies. In this case, plasma technologies can complement or facilitate the application of already-established methods. For example, plasma cleaning prior to bonding and colouring, increasing adhesion between reinforcements and the matrix in composites, or the coating of materials made using additive manufacturing. This Special Issue will include knowledge from basic research that has potential for industrial use as well as that which can be applied in existing industrial technologies. We will focus on the following specialized topics:
- Plasma and ion surface engineering (ion and plasma sources, new generation of pulse power supplies, HiPIMS)
- Coatings in contact with water and ice (icephobic surfaces, superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces)
- Adaptive tribological coatings (high temperature tribological coatings, self-lubricating coatings)
- Flexible coatings (abrasion resistant coatings, hard nanocomposite coatings, self-healing coatings)
- Biomedical and biological applications (biocompatible and biodegradable coatings, biofunctionalization of surfaces, agricultural applications)
- Particles and powders in plasma (nanoparticle synthesis, treatment and functionalization of nanoparticle surfaces)
- Plasma treatment, plasma cleaning (surface cleaning and functionalization for adhesion and bonding, application on composite materials)
- Plasma–surface interaction (simulation and modelling, surface modifications)
Prof. Petr Špatenka
Dr. Ladislav Cvrček
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- icephobic surfaces
- plasma treatment
- plasma cleaning
- biocompatible coatings
- tribology coatings
- flexible coatings
- nanoparticle treatment
