C. Elegans
Harrick Plasma → Applications → Life Sciences → Genomics → C. Elegans. Caenorhabditis elegans (C. Elegans) is an invaluable model organism in cell biology due to its simplicity, transparency, genetic tractability, and the conservation of many cellular processes.
Solar Collectors
Harrick Plasma → News & Research → Research → Solar Collectors. Non-toxic Electroplated Coatings for Solar Parabolic Trough Collectors. Despite contributing to 50% of the global energy demand, thermal energy has often been neglected as an application for renewable energy technologies, instead losing ground to electricity production via solar cells or wind
Research Spotlight: Membrane Distillation
Harrick Plasma → News & Research → Research → Research Spotlight: Membrane Distillation. Many desalination plants around the world rely on membrane distillation to extract drinkable water from seawater. However, membrane distillation is also used to treat industrial wastewater prior to discharging it into the environment.
Research Spotlight: Blood Plasma Separation
To solve these issues, Zhang et. al developed a novel microfluidic device for blood plasma separation. During the fabrication process, Zhang used Harrick Plasma''s High-Power Plasma Cleaner to bond a patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer to a glass slide. The completed microfluidic device consists of two circular channels connected by
Acoustofluidics
Cell & Nanoparticle Sorting. Once fabricated, SAW devices can be utilized for cell or particle sorting and manipulation. Utilizing SAW devices allowed for novel implementation of fluorescence activated droplet sorting (FADS), and separation based on cell density and compressibility, while also being used to fabricate tumor spheroids with controllable size for
Vacuum Gauge and Digital Meter
The optional PDC-VCG provides a vacuum gauge and digital meter as a stand-alone accessory and may be used with any of our plasma cleaner models. The ability to monitor vacuum pressure during plasma processing is beneficial for process repeatability and consistency.
3D Printing
Plasma cleaners are used to treat substrates on which the composite polymer printing process occurs, usually silicon wafers. Plasma treated silicon wafers are hydrophilic, improving 3D printing of bottlebrush block copolymers (BBCPs). Below is a sample of papers that report using Harrick Plasma Cleaners to fabricate composite polymers.
Featured Distributor: SmarTeam
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Zinc Oxide Films
The researchers induced the formation of oxygen vacancies by varying the Ar plasma treatment time (1-10 min) and thus enhancing the sensor''s electrical resistance signal response. Their XPS measurements and spectral analysis indicated that 5 min Ar plasma produced the highest oxygen vacancy content in plasma-treated ZnO films .
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Research Spotlight: Osteogenic Differentiation
Harrick Plasma → News & Research → Research → Research Spotlight: Osteogenic Differentiation. Electrical stimulation plays a critical role in a cell''s interactions with its microenvironment, guiding proliferation, differentiation, and function.
Research Spotlight: Conducting Polymer & Gold Electrode Adhesion
Plasma Treatment and PEI improved interfacial adhesion of the conducting polymer polypyyrole with gold electrodes, increasing preformance and stability. Polymers (CP), such as polypyrrole (pPy), are promising materials with potential applications as electrochemical energy storage devices, actuators and biosensors due to their conductivity
Plasma Technology: An Emerging Technology for Energy
for Energy Storage Annemie Bogaerts* and Erik C. Neyts Research Group PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, BE-2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, and the plasma column, and the wave energy is absorbed by the plasma. MW plasmas can operate from reduced pressure (e.g., 10 mTorr) up to atmospheric pressure. When
Immunoassay Development
Harrick Plasma → Applications → Life Sciences → Biotechnology → Immunoassay Development. Immunoassays identify disease biomarkers in patient samples and enable the detection of viruses, cancers and various other pathogens by exploiting the relationship between antibodies and antigens [1].
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Superhydrophobic Surfaces
hydrophobic coatings. Plasma treatment can be applied to introduce oxygen containing functional groups and increase surface hydrophilicity. This, in turn, promotes strong adhesion and uniform spreading of a hydrophobic coating on the surface, such as illustrated in Figure 1.. Matin et al. developed a superhydrophobic and self-cleaning glass surface by
DNA Combing
Harrick Plasma → Applications → Life Sciences → Genomics → 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.
Plasma Processes and Polymers: Vol 21, No 11
The electrical properties of biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films decrease sharply at high temperatures. To improve this problem, TiO 2 (titanium dioxide) was deposited on the surface of BOPP film by atmospheric pressure plasma jets, using the mixture of tetraethyl titanate and anhydrous ethanol as the precursor. Plasma deposition can uniformly
Fluorescence Microscopy
Plasma removes organic contamination and introduces polar groups to glass or quartz slide surfaces. As a result, plasma removes fluorescent impurities that would otherwise appear as confounding artifacts. Additionally, plasma treatment enhances the deposition of surface coatings that can be used to tether single molecules to the slide surfaces.
Electrode Cleaning
For example, after plasma treatment, the maximum thermopower of graphene films was enhanced by oxygen plasma treatment from ∼80 μV/K to ∼700 μV/K in a study by Xiao et al. In the following papers, you will find examples of plasma treatments effective use in the cleaning of electrodes. Relevant Articles from Harrick Plasma Users
Research Spotlight: Conducting Polymer & Gold
Plasma Treatment and PEI improved interfacial adhesion of the conducting polymer polypyyrole with gold electrodes, increasing preformance and stability. Polymers (CP), such as polypyrrole (pPy), are promising materials
Featured User: Fesarius Therapeutics
Harrick Plasma → News & 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
Research Spotlight: Ice Crystallization
Gandee H, Zhou Y, Lee J, Chomali J, Xu H, and Adera S. "Unique ice dendrite morphology on state-of-the-art oil-impregnated surfaces". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023 120:1 10.1073/pnas.2214143120
TiO2 Nanostructures for Solar Cells
Harrick Plasma → Applications → Electronics → 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.
Photoresist: Cleaning, Spinning & Descum
Harrick Plasma cleaners are used to descum without significantly affecting the bulk of the photoresist. Below, you will find articles in which silicon, glass or other substrates are plasma treated before and after spin coating with photoresist. Relevant Articles from Harrick Plasma Users. An H, Chen L, Liu X, Zhao B, Ma D, and Wu Z.
Plasma Technology: An Emerging Technology for Energy Storage
Plasma technology is gaining increasing interest for gas conversion applications, such as CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals or renewable fuels, and N2 fixation from the air, to be used for the production of small building blocks for, e.g., mineral fertilizers. Plasma is generated by electric power and can easily be switched on/off, making it, in principle, suitable