Substantial discharge of hazardous substances, especially dyes and heavy metal ions to the
environment, has become a global concern due to many industries neglecting the …

Materials with the desirable surface wettability are of key importance in diverse applications.
However, most of the existing chemical processes used for surface wettability control are …

Polymer materials are widely employed in many fields due to the ease with which they can
be formed into complex shapes, their versatile mechanical properties, light weight, and low …

With the advances in science and engineering in the second part of the 20th century,
emerging plasma-based technologies continuously find increasing applications in the …

Many applications of polymers require the functionalisation of their surface for use in
sensors, composite materials, membranes, microfluidic and biomedical devices and many …

Nanoscale particulate materials draw great interest in an increasing number of applications,
such as electronics, energy storage, automotive, health or environment. In particular, the …

We present a review of low-pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD)
with the hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO) precursor for production of organosilicon thin films …

Activation reactions of molecules in plasma are investigated using plasma polymerization of
hexamethyldisiloxane as a model system for plasma‐state polymerization. Underlying …

Since decades, the PECVD ('plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition') processes have
emerged as one of the most convenient and versatile approaches to synthesize either …

A compact low-temperature plasma jet device was developed to use ambient air as plasma
gas. The device was driven by a 2.52-kV high-voltage direct-current pulse in a burst mode …