Biology & Biomedical
Effective biological and biomedical research requires specific control of the cellular microenvironment and biomaterial characteristics. Plasma treatment cleans and activates the surfaces of biomaterials through the introduction of functional groups without affecting the bulk. Increased hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity of material surfaces increase the adhesion, coverage and proliferation of cells or induce the formation of spheroids respectively. In addition, plasma treatment has been shown to improve biocompatibility characteristics for numerous applications. As a result plasma treatments is used extensively for cell seeding, protein adsorption, biomaterial coating and implant surface activation. This page contains brief application summaries and relevant articles concerning the use of plasma treatment in biological and biomedical research.
Featured Distributor: Alpha Science
Harrick Plasma is happy to announce a new exclusive distributor relationship with Alpha Science in South Korea. Centrally located in Seoul, Alpha Science offers improved customer service and support for Korean universities, national research...
Featured User: Fesarius Therapeutics
Harrick Plasma is excited to partner with FesariusTherapeutics Inc., maker of DermiSpere™, a dermal regeneration scaffold that promises game-changing efficacy in a $5 billion addressable market. DermiSphere utilizes patented collagen microsphere...
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...
Cell Adhesion
Cell adhesion plays an integral role in cell culture and tissue engineering. In the native environment, cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) bind to the extracellular matrix and neighboring cells to provide structural support and chemical cues vital for...
Plasma Oxidation of Graphene
Graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon with a hexagonal crystal structure, has been heavily investigated in the past decade for its many unique material properties. With its high electrical and thermal conductivity, near optical transparency, and...
DNA Combing
DNA Combing, a technique used in the analysis of single molecules of DNA, offers researchers an opportunity to better understand the dynamics of replication, transcription and individual molecule interactions. While advances in DNA sequencing...
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,...
Research Spotlight: Conducting Polymer & Gold Electrode Adhesion
Harrick Plasma → RS: Conducting Polymer Conducting Polymers (CP), such as polypyrrole (pPy), are promising materials with potential applications as electrochemical energy storage devices, actuators and biosensors due to their conductivity, redox activity and...
Nitrogen-doped Graphene by Plasma Treatment
Graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon with a hexagonal crystal structure, has been heavily investigated in the past decade for its many unique material properties. With its high electrical and thermal conductivity, near optical transparency,...
Photoresist: Cleaning, Spinning & Descum
To more effectively coat and pattern substrates such as silicon wafers and glass with photoresist, plasma treatment is used extensively to enhance three crucial steps: Cleaning, Spinning and Descum. An essential first task is to ensure that the...
Tissue Culture Plastic (Polystyrene)
Inexpensive, disposable and transparent, plasma treated polystyrene, or tissue culture plastic (TCP), is the most extensively used cell culture material, not only because of its aforementioned qualities but because of its biological affinity....
Featured Distributor: Mycro Technologies
Harrick Plasma is excited to announce the renewal of an exclusive distributor relationship with Mycro Technologies, who will continue to promote and offer our products in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and, now, Vietnam. Founded in 2008, Mycro...
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....
Featured User: Zymtronix
Harrick Plasma is excited to announce that Zymtronix, a Cornell Biotech start-up also located in Ithaca NY, has completed a successful test evaluation of our plasma cleaner's capabilities. Zymtronix develops new materials and cutting-edge processes...
What Our Customers are Saying…
"Harrick Plasma's instruments have proved to be very user friendly, with little to no experience required to successfully operate. Their well designed instruments, paired with the extremely knowledgeable, quick responding, and research guiding staff scientists have...
Added Applications: February 2019
In February 2019, we launched the new Applications Resource with five broad topics, Nanoscale Cleaning, Alter Surface Chemistry, Device Fabrication, Biology & Biomedical and Surface Patterning, that encompass the majority of plasma cleaning...
Research Spotlight: Nucleic Acid Biosensor
Microfluidic Devices display immense potential as point of care (PoC) diagnostic instruments for the detection of infectious diseases and the screening of antimicrobial resistance. In particular, rapid detection is important in the context of single...
What Our Customers are Saying…
“Plasma treatment is an essential part of our microfluidic devices fabrication. We use a Harrick Plasma Cleaner to activate the surface of polydimethylsilicone (PDMS) devices and glass coverslips for permanent bonding. We use microfluidic devices for studies in cell...
What Our Customers are Saying…
"We have worked with Harrick Plasma for several years now to introduce their plasma cleaners to researchers and businesses for PDMS bonding and microfluidic device fabrication. The Harrick Plasma systems are robust as well as easy to use and maintain. We and all our...
What Our Customers are Saying…
“The Harrick Plasma cleaner is easy to use and can quickly process many samples in a short time. Also the technical staff is readily available to answer any scientific questions regarding the handling of machine. l would highly recommend using a Harrick Plasma cleaner...