Nanotechnology
Plasma treatment is crucial in nanotechnology for modifying and cleaning surfaces at the nanoscale. It enables precise control over surface properties such as wettability, adhesion, and chemical reactivity, which are essential for fabricating and manipulating nanostructures. In processes like nanolithography, plasma treatment ensures contamination-free surfaces, leading to higher precision in patterning. It also plays a role in enhancing the functionality of nanomaterials, such as improving the dispersibility of nanoparticles or modifying the surface chemistry of nanowires and nanotubes, thereby optimizing their integration into nanoscale devices and applications.
Learn more about how plasma treatment is used for your specific application in the following application notes:
Porous Metal Nanoshells
Hollow porous nanoshells can be tailored to have unique physical and chemical properties for potential use in catalysis and biosensor applications. Plasma treatment can be applied to facilitate nanoshell fabrication and alter physical properties and morphology....
Nanowires
Conductive nanowires have been extensively studied recently for their potential use as transparent conducting electrodes in flexible electronics, wearable biosensors (wearable electronics), organic light emitting diodes OLEDs, and solar cells [1-3]....
Enhance Plasmonic Response in Silver Nanoparticles
Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) is gaining interest as a highly sensitive analytical technique to detect chemical and biological molecules in low concentrations. Plasma treatment is utilized to clean patterned substrates, specifically designed for LSPR, and...
Acoustofluidics
Surface acoustic waves (SAW) offer high precision, contactless control of small volumes of liquid in microfluidic devices. Through the implementation of SAW in microfluidic devices (Acoustofluidics), researchers can achieve label free sorting of...
TiO2 Nanostructures for Solar Cells
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) have been heavily investigated as a promising low-cost alternative to silicon-based solar cells. A combination of TiCl4 chemical and O2 plasma treatment has been studied to improve the performance of DSSCs based on...
Shaping Nanoparticles by Plasma Treatment
Nanoparticles (NPs), which typically range in size from a few to 100 nm diameter, are readily found in nature or can be fabricated from a broad range of materials (metallic, organic, inorganic). The combination of their material composition,...
Plasma Lithography
One common and easily employed method for surface micropatterning is plasma lithography, in which a deformable mask is placed in contact with a substrate surface before plasma treatment to create a chemical template for subsequent processing steps....