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Title: Atmospheric pressure plasma processing of polymeric materials utilizing close proximity indirect exposure

Abstract

A plasma treatment method that includes providing treatment chamber including an intermediate heating volume and an interior treatment volume. The interior treatment volume contains an electrode assembly for generating a plasma and the intermediate heating volume heats the interior treatment volume. A work piece is traversed through the treatment chamber. A process gas is introduced to the interior treatment volume of the treatment chamber. A plasma is formed with the electrode assembly from the process gas, wherein a reactive species of the plasma is accelerated towards the fiber tow by flow vortices produced in the interior treatment volume by the electrode assembly.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1325785
Patent Number(s):
9447205
Application Number:
13/680,406
Assignee:
UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY
C - CHEMISTRY C08 - ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS C08F - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Nov 19
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

Citation Formats

Paulauskas, Felix L., and Bonds, Truman. Atmospheric pressure plasma processing of polymeric materials utilizing close proximity indirect exposure. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Paulauskas, Felix L., & Bonds, Truman. Atmospheric pressure plasma processing of polymeric materials utilizing close proximity indirect exposure. United States.
Paulauskas, Felix L., and Bonds, Truman. Tue . "Atmospheric pressure plasma processing of polymeric materials utilizing close proximity indirect exposure". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1325785.
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