Aerosol-Assisted Plasma Deposition of Biocomposite Coatings: Investigation of Processing Conditions on Coating Properties

Chun Ping Hsiao, Cheng Chen Wu, Yung Hsin Liu, Yi Wei Yang, Yun-Chien Cheng, Fabio Palumbo, Giuseppe Camporeale, Pietro Favia, Jong-Shinn Wu*

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Abstract

The aerosol-Assisted atmospheric-pressure planar dielectric-barrier-discharge-Type plasma deposition (AA-APPD) system can polymerize monomers and immobilize biomolecules simultaneously. In this paper, we used this technology to deposit biocomposite thin films of polyethylene (PE) along with lysozyme (Lyz) under different aerosol solution temperatures and at different coating positions in the discharge region. In addition, we compared the deposition efficacy of two kinds of Lyz solution using deionized (DI)-water and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) as solvents, respectively. The results show that deposition rate of thin films increases with increasing solution temperature at most coating positions. In addition, coatings from Lyz-PBS perform higher deposition rates, but with weaker Lyz viability as compared with that of Lyz DI-water. Finally, we also verified that this DBD-Type AA-APPD system can not only successfully deposit Lyz in PE thin film, but also maintain Lyz viability after plasma process under different solution temperatures and positions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7526434
Pages (from-to)3091-3098
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume44
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2016

Keywords

  • Aerosols
  • atmospheric-pressure plasmas
  • composite materials
  • plasma applications
  • polymer films

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