Industrial Plasma Technology: Applications from Environmental to Energy Technologies

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Industrial Plasma Technology: Applications from Environmental to Energy Technologies

Editor(s): Yoshinobu Kawai, Hideo Ikegami, Noriyoshi Sato, Akihisa Matsuda, Kiichiro Uchino, Masayuki Kuzuya, Akira Mizuno

Published Online: 7 OCT 2010 09:52AM EST

Print ISBN: 9783527325443

Online ISBN: 9783527629749

DOI: 10.1002/9783527629749

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Clearly structured in five major sections on applications, this monograph covers such hot technologies as nanotechnology, solar cell technology, biomedical and clinical applications, and sustainability.
Since the topic, applications and readers are highly interdisciplinary, the book bridges materials science, industrial chemistry, physics, and engineering -- making it a must-have for researchers in industry and academia, as well as those working in application-oriented plasma technology.

Table of contents

    1. You have free access to this content
      Front Matter (pages I–XXXI)

    2. Chapter 1

      Introduction to Plasmas (pages 1–5)

      Prof. Hideo Ikegami

    3. Chapter 2

      Environmental Application of Nonthermal Plasma (pages 7–17)

      Prof. Akira Mizuno

    4. Chapter 3

      Atmospheric Plasma Air Pollution Control, Solid Waste, and Water Treatment Technologies: Fundamental and Overview (pages 19–36)

      Jen-Shih Chang

    5. Chapter 4

      Optical Diagnostics for High-Pressure Nonthermal Plasma Analysis (pages 37–47)

      Tetsuji Oda and Ryo Ono

    6. Chapter 5

      Laser Investigations of Flow Patterns in Electrostatic Precipitators and Nonthermal Plasma Reactors (pages 49–64)

      Jerzy Mizeraczyk, Janusz Podlinski, Anna Niewulis and Mirosław Dors

    7. Chapter 6

      Water Plasmas for Environmental Application (pages 65–77)

      Takayuki Watanabe

    8. Chapter 7

      Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Atmospheric Plasmas (pages 79–92)

      Ester Marotta, Milko Schiorlin, Massimo Rea and Cristina Paradisi

    9. Chapter 8

      Generation and Application of Wide Area Plasma (pages 93–104)

      Noureddine Zouzou, Kazunori Takashima, Prof. Akira Mizuno and Gerard Touchard

    10. Chapter 9

      Nonthermal Plasma-Based System for Exhaust Treatment under Reduced Atmosphere of Pyrolysis Gases (pages 105–111)

      Marcela Morvová, Viktor Martišovitš, Imrich Morva, Ivan Košinár, Mário Janda, Daniela Kunecová, Nina Kolesárová and Veronika Biskupičová

    11. Chapter 10

      Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Engineering by Plasma Techniques (pages 113–139)

      Prof. Masayuki Kuzuya, Yasushi Sasai, Shin-Ichi Kondo and Yukinori Yamauchi

    12. Chapter 11

      Targeting Dendritic Cells with Carbon Magnetic Nanoparticles Made by Dense-Medium Plasma Technology (pages 141–147)

      Heidi A. Schreiber, Jozsef Prechl, Hongquan Jiang, Alla Zozulya, Zsuzsanna Fabry, Ferencz S. Denes and Matyas Sandor

    13. Chapter 12

      Applications of Pulsed Power and Plasmas to Biosystems and Living Organisms (pages 149–163)

      Hidenori Akiyama, Sunao Katsuki and Masahiro Akiyama

    14. Chapter 13

      Applications of Plasma Polymerization in Biomaterials (pages 165–180)

      David A. Steele and Robert D. Short

    15. Chapter 14

      Plasma Sterilization at Normal Atmospheric Pressure (pages 181–192)

      Tetsuya Akitsu, Siti Khadijah Za aba, Hiroshi Ohkawa, Keiko Katayama-Hirayama, Masao Tsuji, Naohiro Shimizu and Yuichirou Imanishi

    16. Chapter 15

      Elimination of Pathogenic Biological Residuals by Means of Low-Pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma Discharge (pages 193–199)

      Ondřej Kylián, Hubert Rauscher, Ana Ruiz, Benjamin Denis, Katharina Stapelmann and François Rossi

    17. Chapter 16

      Sterilization and Protein Treatment Using Oxygen Radicals Produced by RF Discharge (pages 201–206)

      Nobuya Hayashi and Akira Yonesu

    18. Chapter 17

      Hydrophilicity and Bioactivity of a Polyethylene Terephthalate Surface Modified by Plasma-Initiated Graft Polymerization (pages 207–219)

      Nagahiro Saito, Takahiro Ishizaki, Junko Hieda, Syohei Fujita and Osamu Takai

    19. Chapter 18

      Strategies and Issues on the Plasma Processing of Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells (pages 221–229)

      Prof. Akihisa Matsuda

    20. Chapter 19

      Characteristics of VHF Plasma with Large Area (pages 231–245)

      Prof. Yoshinobu Kawai, Yoshiaki Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Yamauchi and Hiromu Takatsuka

    21. Chapter 20

      Deposition of a-Si: H Films with High Stability against Light Exposure by Reducing Deposition of Nanoparticles Formed in SiH4 Discharges (pages 247–257)

      Kazunori Koga, Masaharu Shiratani and Yukio Watanabe

    22. Chapter 21

      Diagnostics and Modeling of SiH4/H2 Plasmas for the Deposition of Microcrystalline Silicon: The Case of Dual-Frequency Sources (pages 259–273)

      Eleftherios Amanatides and Dimitrios Mataras

    23. Chapter 22

      Introduction to Diamond-Like Carbons (pages 275–276)

      Masaru Hori

    24. Chapter 23

      Diamond-Like Carbon for Applications (pages 277–299)

      John Robertson

    25. Chapter 24

      Applications of DLCs to Bioprocessing (pages 301–313)

      Tatsuyuki Nakatani and Yuki Nitta

    26. Chapter 25

      Plasma Processing of Nanocrystalline Semiconductive Cubic Boron Nitride Thin Films (pages 315–334)

      Kenji Nose and Toyonobu Yoshida

    27. Chapter 26

      Fundamentals on Tribology of Plasma-Deposited Diamond-Like Carbon Films (pages 335–338)

      Julien Fontaine and Christophe Donnet

    28. Chapter 27

      Diamond-Like Carbon Thin Films Grown in Pulsed-DC Plasmas (pages 339–347)

      Enric Bertran, Miguel Rubio-Roy, Carles Corbella and José-Luis Andújar

    29. Chapter 28

      Plasma Deposition of N-TiO2 Thin Films (pages 349–356)

      Pablo Romero-Gómez, Angel Barranco, José Cotrino, Juan P. Espinós, Francisco Yubero and Agustín R. González-Elipe

    30. Chapter 29

      Investigation of DLC and Multilayer Coatings Hydrophobic Character for Biomedical Applications (pages 357–363)

      Rodica Vladoiu, Aurelia Mandes, Virginia Dinca, Mirelsa Contulov, Victor Ciupina, Cristian Petric Lungu and Geavit Musa

    31. Chapter 30

      Creation of Novel Electromagnetic and Reactive Media from Microplasmas (pages 365–376)

      Kunihide Tachibana

    32. Chapter 31

      Nanoblock Assembly Using Pulse RF Discharges with Amplitude Modulation (pages 377–383)

      Shinya Iwashita, Hiroshi Miyata, Kazunori Koga and Masaharu Shiratani

    33. Chapter 32

      Thomson Scattering Diagnostics of Discharge Plasmas (pages 385–397)

      Prof. Kiichiro Uchino and Kentaro Tomita

    34. Chapter 33

      Crystallized Nanodust Particles Growth in Low-Pressure Cold Plasmas (pages 399–408)

      Laïfa Boufendi, Marie Christine Jouanny, Marjory Cavarroc, Abdelaziz Mezeghrane, Maxime Mikikian and Yves Tessier

    35. Chapter 34

      Collection and Removal of Fine Particles in Plasma Chambers (pages 409–423)

      Prof. Noriyoshi Sato

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      Index (pages 425–434)

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