Ionised cluster beams have been produced and employed for thin film deposition and
surface processing for half a century. In the last two decades, kiloelectronvolt cluster ions …

Controlling the balance between stability and functional group density in grown plasma
polymer films is the key to diverse applications such as drug release, tissue-engineered …

Argon gas cluster ion beams (Ar-GCIBs) provide new opportunities for molecular depth
profiling and imaging of organic materials and biological samples, thanks to recent …

Plasma treatments are acquiring growing commercial recognition as a highly practical
means of altering the surface properties of textiles without detriment to their bulk properties …

The injection of water vapor into ambient “open air” plasmas for the treatment of polymers
represents a promising functionalization route for industrial and medical applications. The …

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is increasingly used for the
detailed chemical characterization of complex organic materials. Of particular interest in …

Polystyrene-like coatings are synthesized by plasma near atmospheric pressure. Elucidating
their chemical structure after exposure to ambient air could be very challenging because of …

Phenol‐paraphenylenediamine (P‐pPDA) benzoxazines exhibit excellent barrier properties,
adequate to protect aluminum alloys from corrosion, and constitute interesting candidates to …

La fonctionnalisation des surfaces à l'aide des protéines est un atout majeur dans de
nombreuses applications. Toutefois, l'adsorption des protéines en solution aqueuse sur les …

This fundamental contribution on time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)
polymer depth-profiling by massive argon clusters is focused on the investigation of the …