The aim of the project is to study processes running during plasma polymerization, co-polymerization and modification of surfaces of solid state substrates by plasmas. The diagnostics of the reactive plasma will be realized in a special high vacuum reactor by various tools - optical emission spectroscopy, actinometry, mass spectrometry, probes. Protective coatings prepared from various mixtures of monomers and gases like oxygen, argon, methane and deposited on plastic materials as to their optical and mechanical properties. The study (by ESR) of DLC and composite CNx films in inductive coupled plasma will continue. Microcrystalline diamond and DLC films will be also prepared in the microwave reactor ASTEX. Properties of surfaces and deposited films will be investigated by ellipsometry, contact angle, AFM XPS, FTIR. The application of the APG discharge for surface treatment of fibrous material (textile, paper, ...) and new methos of restoration of archaeological artefacts will be studied, too.

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