Complete Guide to Know About Plasma Surface Activation

Posted by Alpha Plasma (Malaysia) on March 18th, 2020

Plasma technology is changing the way of working with surfaces of different objects especially polymers and non-polymer elements, which need extra energy and smoothness on surface to activate and work with in industries. However, many industries are being adopted power of plasma technology, which is revolutionizing the way of industrial processes of modifying properties of surface of an object. For this aim, there are many types of plasma surface modification processes have been developed, which can improve surface quality and adhesion property of items like metals, glass, polymer, ceramic, etc. So, if you want to enhance surface quality of such materials, you should use plasma surface activation process that is widely used in many industries in order to modify surface properties of an object.

What is Plasma Surface Activation?

Plasma surface activation is an industrial process that involves modification of surface by replacing its functional groups or atoms from ions through plasma process in order to increase energy level on surface. This method of surface modification is widely used for preparing surface of object for printing and bonding purposes.

How Plasma Surface Activation Works?

The process of plasma surface treatment works when certain volume of gas is exposed to the energy source like electricity or microwave then it will create the mixture free radicals, ions, and electrons, and other molecules that need to be removed. At last, the resultant will be in form organic elements that need to be removed from the surface to activate it for further industrial process.

How Plasma Activation Treatment is Used?

Plasma activation treatment is applied virtually to the surface of metals, glass, polymers, ceramic and elastomer as well. It helps in increasing bonding on surface of such materials which includes adhesion and prepare their surfaces for bonding and coating by removing organic elements from surface.

Plasma treatment works perfectly with materials having hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces. At industrial level, plasma surface activation process is classified into two categories such as atmospheric and low-pressure or vacuum. It is so because both processes do use energy to ionize gas to modify property of surface.

Applications of Plasma Activation Treatment

• Plasma surface activation treatment technology is widely used in many printing industries.
• It is also used in medical and biotechnology fields to combat with contamination of micro-organisms and cleaning of them.
• Most the printing companies do use plasma to prepare water-based inks and screen prints on devices and metals.
• The plasma surface technology is also applicable to use in Aerospace companies to increase bond strength of aircrafts.
• Most of the electronic industries do use plasma to protect sensitive components in circuits.

All in all, the impact of plasma surface activation process is always higher in order to modify properties of surface of any object and energize it to do intended modification on it.

Apart from plasma surface activation, there are many other types of plasma surface modification processes are being carried out in industries such as plasma coating, plasma etching, plasma cleaning, plasma products’ development, and in semiconductors as well. Hence, the plasma surface technology is touch many fields these days and made the industrial processes smoother and hassle free to execute without giving any adverse effect on the environment. Now-a-days, you will find different kinds of plasma surface technology based products are being prepared by industries like plasma television, microwaves, laboratory test equipment, agricultural products, etc. Thus, there is great application of plasma technology in different industries for preparing useful things for human life.