THE PLASMA CHEMISTRY OF POLYMER SURFACES - ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR SURFACE DESIGN

Friedrich (chemistry, Technical U. of Berlin, Germany) considers plasma processes and the reactions in the polymer body from the chemical and polymer chemical perspective, for physicists, engineers, chemists, and polymer researchers. He presents several variants of surface techniques with monotype functional groups, such as chemical post-plasma reduction, pulse-pressure plasma polymerization, underwater plasma and glow discharge electrolysis, and deposition of functionalized prepolymers and oligomers by aerosol and electrospray. He describes the interaction between plasma and polymers; plasma and its state, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of modification of polymer surfaces, and other aspects; chemistry and energetics in classic and plasma processes; the kinetics of polymer surface modification; bulk, ablative, and side reactions; metallization of plasma-modified polymers; accelerated plasma-aging of polymers; and atmospheric-pressure plasmas. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J?rg Florian Friedrich was born in 1948, in Erkner, near Berlin. From 1967 to 1972, he studied chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1972 he began his PhD studies at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry. His graduation
followed in the years 1974/1975 as PhD resp. Dr. rer. nat., and in 1981/1982 he obtained his habilitation (lecture qualifi cation). He continued his career in the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) from 1995 on as head of the Division 'Analysis and Structure of Polymers' and later on 'Polymer Surfaces'. He was appointed to professor (and director) in 1996 and to professor at Technical University of Berlin, in 2007.