Invited Paper SM+AS+BI+PS-ThA1
The Chemistry of Plasma Modified 3D Biomaterials
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 2:20 pm, Room 315
Plasma processing has become a most powerful and versatile tool for surface functionalization of porous materials in biomedical field. Non equilibrium plasmas have many advantages over wet chemistry approaches: they are highly eco-friendly, have high potentialities in developing surfaces with peculiar characteristics, are capable to be part of in-line material processing and most importantly, can be applied to any material. Consequently, it has opened many new opportunities for investigation of surface modification in various fields like tissue and organ regeneration and biosensing. In this talk, we shall give a brief review on the recent developments of plasma processing of porous materials. We shall describe our experience on non-equilibrium plasmas to modify materials of biomedical interest like: scaffolds for tissue engineering and 3D carbon nanotubes carpets for bio-sensing. This research is aimed to gain new insights on the potentialities of plasma processing of biomedical materials. This work is encouraged by a deep characterization of material’s surface and investigation of the material/ bio-environment interface.