Order from chaos: Rational design of biointerfacing plasma polymer coatings

该项目的目标是促进使用等离子体处理技术设计的新一代生物接口平台。用于生物界面的功能化等离子体聚合物表面源于等离子体相和表面的随机过程。虽然存在定制简单功能化等离子体聚合物的经验法则，但将等离子体过程与表面化学联系起来的详细知识是缺乏的。该项目利用一系列同源前体，旨在解开物理和化学等离子体过程，以使复杂的表面官能团得以保留，这些官能团对后续的表面处理至关重要。这是通过等离子体相质谱仪和表面分析将等离子体物理和化学联系起来来实现的。

The project goal is to facilitate a new generation of bio-interface platforms to be designed using plasma processing. Functionalised plasma polymer surfaces used for bio-interfaces result from random processes in the plasma phase and at the surface. While rules-of-thumb exist for tailoring simple functionalised plasma polymers, detailed knowledge linking plasma processes to surface chemistry is lacking. Using a homologous series of precursors, the project aims to unravel physical and chemical plasma processes to enable retention of complex surface functional groups which are critical for subsequent surface processing. This is designed to be achieved by linking plasma physics and chemistry via plasma phase mass spectrometry and surface analysis.