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 …

Inspired by nature, tunable wettability has attracted a lot of attention in both academia and
industry. Various methods of polymer surface tailoring have been studied to control the …

In this paper, a slender Ar plasma is excited by a low frequency discharge in a configuration
of two parallel cylinder electrodes under a low pressure of 50 Pa, and the plasma features …

A superhydrophobic and icephobic surface were investigated on aluminum alloy substrate.
Anodizing was used first to create a micro-nanostructured aluminum oxide underlayer on the …

Since the 1980s, functionalized plasma polymer films have attracted a considerable
attention owing to their promising utilization in a wide range of modern applications. For …

Since a few decades, polymeric materials have played a central role in regenerative
medicine and tissue engineering as artificial tissue replacements and organ transplantation …

To perform a systematic study over a broad parameter range of acrylic acid discharges, we
varied the energy input W/F over a wide range. Five different regimes could be identified …

Plasma polymerized polyacrylic acid (PPAA) was deposited on a polymer substrate, namely
polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mesh, for entrapment of silver nanoparticle (Ag‐NP) in …

Polyacrylic acid thin films have been deposited by an original and fast technique to grow
organic coatings: a pulsed‐arc atmospheric pressure plasma jet. Liquid acrylic acid was …

The current generation of tissue engineered additive manufactured scaffolds for cartilage
repair shows high potential for growing adult cartilage tissue. This study proposes two …