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Demaude A, Baert K, Petitjean D, Zveny J, Goormaghtigh E, Hauffman T, Gordon MJ, Reniers F. Simple and Scalable Chemical Surface Patterning via Direct Deposition from Immobilized Plasma Filaments in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2200237. [PMID: 35343108 PMCID: PMC9130873 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202200237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this work, immobilization of the often unwanted filaments in dielectric barrier discharges (DBD) is achieved and used for one-step deposition of patterned coatings. By texturing one of the dielectric surfaces, a discharge containing stationary plasma filaments is ignited in a mix of argon and propargyl methacrylate (PMA) in a reactor operating at atmospheric pressure. From PMA, hydrophobic and hydrophilic chemical and topographical contrasts at sub-millimeter scale are obtained on silicon and glass substrates. Chemical and physical characterizations of the samples are performed by micrometer-scale X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and infrared imaging and by water contact angle and profilometry, respectively. From the latter and additional information from high-speed imaging of the plasma phase and electrical measurements, it is suggested that filaments, denser in energetic species, lead to higher deposition rate with higher fragmentation of the precursor, while surface discharges igniting outwards the filaments are leading to smoother and slower deposition. This work opens a new route for a one-step large-area chemical and morphological patterning of surfaces at sub-millimeter scales. Moreover, the possibility to separately deposit coatings from filaments and the surrounding plasma phase can be helpful to better understand the processes occurring during plasma polymerization in filamentary DBD.
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Affiliation(s)
- Annaëlle Demaude
- Faculty of SciencesChemistry of SurfacesInterfaces and Nanomaterials (ChemSIN)Université libre de BruxellesAvenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 255BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials and ChemistryElectrochemical and Surface Engineering Research Group (SURF)Vrije Universiteit BrusselPleinlaan 2BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Faculty of SciencesChemistry of SurfacesInterfaces and Nanomaterials (ChemSIN)Université libre de BruxellesAvenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 255BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Faculty of SciencesChemistry of SurfacesInterfaces and Nanomaterials (ChemSIN)Université libre de BruxellesAvenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 255BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Structure and Function of Biological MembranesCenter for Structural Biology and BioinformaticsUniversité libre de BruxellesAvenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 206/2BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials and ChemistryElectrochemical and Surface Engineering Research Group (SURF)Vrije Universiteit BrusselPleinlaan 2BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringEng II #3351University of California – Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCA93106‐5080USA
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- Faculty of SciencesChemistry of SurfacesInterfaces and Nanomaterials (ChemSIN)Université libre de BruxellesAvenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, CP 255BrusselsB‐1050Belgium
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Ma C, Nikiforov A, De Geyter N, Dai X, Morent R, Ostrikov KK. Future antiviral polymers by plasma processing. Prog Polym Sci 2021; 118:101410. [PMID: 33967350 PMCID: PMC8085113 DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is largely threatening global public health, social stability, and economy. Efforts of the scientific community are turning to this global crisis and should present future preventative measures. With recent trends in polymer science that use plasma to activate and enhance the functionalities of polymer surfaces by surface etching, surface grafting, coating and activation combined with recent advances in understanding polymer-virus interactions at the nanoscale, it is promising to employ advanced plasma processing for smart antiviral applications. This trend article highlights the innovative and emerging directions and approaches in plasma-based surface engineering to create antiviral polymers. After introducing the unique features of plasma processing of polymers, novel plasma strategies that can be applied to engineer polymers with antiviral properties are presented and critically evaluated. The challenges and future perspectives of exploiting the unique plasma-specific effects to engineer smart polymers with virus-capture, virus-detection, virus-repelling, and/or virus-inactivation functionalities for biomedical applications are analysed and discussed.
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Key Words
- ACE2, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
- Antiviral polymers
- BSA, bovine serum albumin
- CF4, tetrafluoromethane
- COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019
- DC, direct current
- H2, hydrogen
- HBV, hepatitis B virus
- HMDSO, hexamethyldisiloxane
- IPNpp, plasma polymerized isopentyl nitrite
- MERS-CoV, middle east respiratory syndrome
- MW, microwave
- NO, nitric oxide
- PC, polycarbonate
- PDMS, polydimethylsiloxane
- PECVD, plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition
- PEG, polyethene glycol
- PET, polyethene terephthalate
- PFM, pentafluorophenyl methacrylate
- PP, polypropylene
- PPE, personal protective equipment
- PS, polystyrene
- PTFE, polytetrafluoroethylene
- PVC, polyvinyl chloride
- REF, reference
- RF, radio frequency
- RONS, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species
- RSV, respiratory syncytial virus
- RT-PCR, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction
- RV, rhinovirus
- SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
- SEM, scanning electron microscopy
- TEOS-O2, tetraethyl orthosilicate and oxygen
- UV, ultraviolet
- WCA, water contact angle
- plasma processing
- surface modification
- ΔD, the variation of the dissipation
- Δf, the frequency shift
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- Chuanlong Ma
- Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT), Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT), Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT), Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China
- Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT), Department of Applied Physics, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- School of Chemistry and Physics and QUT Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 4000 Brisbane, Australia
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Handrea-Dragan M, Botiz I. Multifunctional Structured Platforms: From Patterning of Polymer-Based Films to Their Subsequent Filling with Various Nanomaterials. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:445. [PMID: 33573248 PMCID: PMC7866561 DOI: 10.3390/polym13030445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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There is an astonishing number of optoelectronic, photonic, biological, sensing, or storage media devices, just to name a few, that rely on a variety of extraordinary periodic surface relief miniaturized patterns fabricated on polymer-covered rigid or flexible substrates. Even more extraordinary is that these surface relief patterns can be further filled, in a more or less ordered fashion, with various functional nanomaterials and thus can lead to the realization of more complex structured architectures. These architectures can serve as multifunctional platforms for the design and the development of a multitude of novel, better performing nanotechnological applications. In this work, we aim to provide an extensive overview on how multifunctional structured platforms can be fabricated by outlining not only the main polymer patterning methodologies but also by emphasizing various deposition methods that can guide different structures of functional nanomaterials into periodic surface relief patterns. Our aim is to provide the readers with a toolbox of the most suitable patterning and deposition methodologies that could be easily identified and further combined when the fabrication of novel structured platforms exhibiting interesting properties is targeted.
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- Madalina Handrea-Dragan
- Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 42 Treboniu Laurian Str. 400271 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
- Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, 1 M. Kogalniceanu Str. 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 42 Treboniu Laurian Str. 400271 Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
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Li N, Pranantyo D, Kang ET, Wright DS, Luo HK. A Simple Drop-and-Dry Approach to Grass-Like Multifunctional Nanocoating on Flexible Cotton Fabrics Using In Situ-Generated Coating Solution Comprising Titanium-Oxo Clusters and Silver Nanoparticles. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:12093-12100. [PMID: 32057229 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Multifunctional nanocoatings have been of central importance in various technological fields, yet their fabrication, especially on flexible substrates, still remains a persistent challenge to date. We herein demonstrate a mild single-step drop-and-dry approach to the in situ growth of hierarchical grass-like nanostructures on flexible cotton fabrics. A precursor solution comprising titanium-oxo clusters [Ti18MnO30(OEt)20(MnPhen)3] (Phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) and AgNO3 is employed wherein Ag+ cations are in situ-reduced to silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Drop-casting onto cotton fabrics under mild conditions induces the in situ growth of the heterogeneous grass-like assembly, and each constituent nanofibrous 'grass leaf' incorporates AgNPs both on the surface and embedded in the interior. The hierarchical morphology and heterogeneous composition of these grass-like nanostructures impart the coated cotton fabrics with enhanced antibacterial properties, robust hydrophobicity, and UV-blocking capability, which are features desired in textile materials but lacking in natural cotton.
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- Ning Li
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, 2 Fusionopolis Way, #08-03, Innovis, 138634, Singapore
- Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, 119260, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, 119260, Singapore
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- Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K
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- Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, 2 Fusionopolis Way, #08-03, Innovis, 138634, Singapore
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George A, Mathew S, van Gastel R, Nijland M, Gopinadhan K, Brinks P, Venkatesan T, ten Elshof JE. Large area resist-free soft lithographic patterning of graphene. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2013; 9:711-715. [PMID: 23161747 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2012] [Revised: 10/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Large area low-cost patterning is a challenging problem in graphene research. A resist-free, single-step, large area and cost effective soft lithographic patterning strategy is presented for graphene. The technique is applicable on any arbitrary substrate that needs to be covered with a graphene film and provides a viable route to large-area patterning of graphene for device applications.
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- Antony George
- Inorganic Materials Science, MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Veldhuis SA, George A, Nijland M, ten Elshof JE. Concentration dependence on the shape and size of sol-gel-derived yttria-stabilized zirconia ceramic features by soft lithographic patterning. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:15111-7. [PMID: 23030350 DOI: 10.1021/la302893s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Typical surface areas of 5 × 5 mm(2) were patterned with high-aspect-ratio micrometer- and submicrometer-sized structures of yttria-stabilized zirconia using a combination of micromolding in capillaries and sol-gel chemistry. The influence of precursor solution concentration and mold geometry on the final shape and dimensions of the patterned structures was investigated. At a precursor concentration of [Zr] = 0.724 mol/dm(3), isolated objects-due to the controlled cracking of patterned films-such as crosses (height 1.4 μm, width 6.0 μm) and "dog bones" (height 800-900 nm, width 900 nm) or patterned films (height 450 nm) were obtained, depending on the mold geometry. Lower precursor concentrations led to differently sized and shaped structures, with changes in dimensions of more than an order of magnitude. Employing a precursor concentration of [Zr] = 0.036 mol/dm(3) yielded isolated rings (height 100-150 nm, line width 20 nm) and squares (height 40 nm, line width 40 nm). A better understanding of the relationship between the precursor concentration, mold geometry, and observed coherent crack patterns in as-dried sol-gel structures may lead to new techniques in patterning isolated features.
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- Sjoerd A Veldhuis
- Inorganic Materials Science Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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You SA, Kwon OS, Jang J. A facile synthesis of uniform Ag nanoparticle decorated CVD-grown graphene via surface engineering. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2jm33589a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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