Non-Thermal Plasma Technology for Polymeric Materials

Professor Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. He is a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India. He is also a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. He is the Chairman of the TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The H index of Professor Thomas is 163 and he has more than 133,000 citationsMiran Mozetič is Professor and Head of the Department of Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the leader of a research group working on generation and characterization of highly reactive gaseous plasma, interdisciplinary research on interaction of non-equilibrium plasma with organic materials, plasma nanoscience, as well as development of different technologies for Dr Uroš Cvelbar is a full professor and the head of the Department of Gaseous Electronics at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. In addition, he serves as a professor, predominantly instructing postgraduate courses at the University of Ljubljana and various other European universities. Professor Cvelbar holds the esteemed title of Erudite professor in India, serves as a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and is a distinguished member of the Club of Rome (Slovenian Association) and a fellow of WAAS (World Academy of Arts and Sciences). Petr Špatenka is Head of the Department of Materials Engneering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He is also Director of the Department of Applied Physics and Technoloy at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, and Co-owner of SufaceTreat, a company focused on plasma technology. Praveen KM is a Research Scholar, International and Inter University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India, and Université de Bretagne-Sud, France

• 1. Introduction to polymeric materials2. Introduction to plasma3. Plasma assisted polymer synthesis and processing4. Plasma assisted polymer modifications5. Plasma induced polymeric coatings6. Application of plasma in printed surfaces and print quality7. Plasma treatment of fibers and powders8. Plasma treatment of polymeric membranes9. Wettability Analysis and Water absorption studies of plasma activated polymeric materials10. Microscopic Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials11. Spectroscopic Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials12. SIMS and Nano SIMS Analysis of plasma activated polymeric materials13. Scattering Techniques (Light, X-ray and Neutron) to analyse plasma activated polymeric materials14. XPS Anaysis of plasma activated polymeric materials15. Plasma modified polymeric materials for scaffolding of bone tissue engineering16. Plasma modified polymeric materials for implant applications17. Plasma modified polymeric materials for biosensors / bio device applications18. Plasma modified polymeric materials for bio packaging