Glass
Plasma cleaning is a powerful and widely adopted method for preparing glass substrates in a variety of scientific, industrial, and manufacturing environments. Plasma cleaning is a dry and environmentally friendly method of to remove nanoscale organic contaminants, enhance surface wettability, and improve adhesion, bonding, and surface interactions.
Plasma-treated glass surfaces exhibit a near-zero water contact angle, indicating hydrophilicity and high free surface energy. This wettability is ideal for applications requiring strong adhesion, uniform coatings, or biomolecule immobilization. However, this hydrophilic state is temporary. Glass surfaces undergo hydrophobic recovery over time as polar functional groups reorient or are neutralized by airborne contaminants. To maximize performance, plasma treatment should be performed in the lab immediately before downstream processes, ensuring surface activation is preserved in subsequent steps.
Glass is commonly used in applications such as microfluidics, sample preparation, sensors, and thin film deposition. Researchers rely on Harrick Plasma’s benchtop plasma cleaners to clean glass substrates without using dangerous and environmentally unfriendly chemicals.
Learn more about how plasma treatment is used for your specific application in the following application notes:
Glass Slides
Glass slides and coverslips are essential substrates in microscopy. To ensure reliable and high-clarity imaging, it is critical that these surfaces are free of organic contamination. Plasma treatment offers an efficient, chemical-free solution for...