Project

Plasma treatment for improvement of hydrophilic, hydrophobic, antibacterial and adhesion properties of medical and textile fabrics

Code
01SF0808
Duration
01 January 2009 → 30 April 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Classical physics
    • Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges
  • Engineering and technology
    • Modelling
    • Multimedia processing
    • Other mechanical and manufacturing engineering
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Materials science and engineering
    • Other materials engineering
    • Biological system engineering
    • Biomaterials engineering
    • Biomechanical engineering
    • Other (bio)medical engineering
    • Environmental engineering and biotechnology
    • Industrial biotechnology
    • Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
Keywords
plasma textile antibacterial surface modification atmospheric pressure discharges low pressure discharges
 
Project description

A joint doctoral research is proposed between department of Applied Physics (Ugent - Belgium) and the Kongunadu Arts & Science College (India). It is an excellent opportunity to evaluate the at Ugent developed atmospheric pressure sources and compare them with low pressure discharge treatments (expertise of Indian partner). This work brings together two different approaches for surface modification of textiles with plasma.