Plasma cleaning is an ideal choice for any manufacturing operation that aims to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance product quality. Understanding plasma cleaning and its benefits is extremely important

Plasma cleaning machines can convert ionized gases (such as argon) into plasma under atmospheric conditions. Plasma cleaning is a dry process that can clean and activate surfaces in complex manufacturing scenarios. Historically, manufacturers have performed plasma cleaning in vacuum chambers or similar controlled environments. Before introducing an electric field or energy, gases such as argon, oxygen, hydrogen, or helium are added to the chamber. Plasma cleaning involves generating plasma by introducing an electric field or energy into the gas, ionizing it into a mixture of free electrons and ions.

The benefits of Zhenyi Corporation's plasma cleaning machine are as follows:

1. Achieve high-precision and reproducible results:

Precision and high repeatability are crucial for industries such as electronics, medical equipment, and aerospace. Plasma cleaning machines provide a baseline and uniform cleaning, and removing these contaminants before bonding helps improve bonding strength, thereby increasing product quality, yield, and lifespan. For example, before assembly, atmospheric plasma cleaning can remove organic residues and other contaminants from electronic components and printed circuit boards, ensuring proper soldering and coating adhesion.

2. Reduce waste: Pollutants can reduce wettability, leading to adhesive or coating issues such as blistering, which can result in low production yield and high consumable costs. Using plasma as a cleaning step can improve wettability and reduce scrap products. For example, plasma cleaning is crucial for semiconductor packaging as it can remove oxidation and contamination on solder pads.

3. Improve cleaning efficiency without affecting the substrate surface: As this is a relatively non aggressive cleaning method, plasma cleaning machines are highly suitable for various expensive or sensitive surfaces and are widely used on semiconductor, glass, fiber optic, and metal surfaces. For example, in high-precision industries such as aerospace and automotive, plasma cleaning ensures thorough surface treatment of adhesives and coatings, provides strong adhesion, and improves product quality.

4. Achieve cleaning of all surfaces: Plasma cleaning technology can provide thorough surface cleaning and effective removal of pollutants, and low-temperature plasma cleaning process is very suitable for cleaning surfaces with complex geometric shapes.

5. Simplify integration with existing production lines: Plasma cleaning machines can be integrated into existing automated production lines, saving time and space costs while improving operational efficiency.

The above are the benefits of plasma technology. Next, we will reveal the characteristics of the application of plasma cleaning machines in the field of biomedicine?

1. By using plasma oxidation treatment (such as O ? plasma) to introduce hydroxyl groups (- OH) and carboxyl groups (- COOH) on the surface of materials, cell adhesion and growth can be promoted. An important requirement for materials implanted in living organisms is that they can be compatible with blood without causing blood coagulation, toxicity, and immune reactions. Such materials are called blood compatible materials, and after plasma cleaning treatment, the compatibility of biological materials can be improved.

2. Plasma treatment can enhance the surface activity of biomaterials and promote the adsorption of extracellular matrix proteins. The majority of blood components are water, and the blood wave compatibility of materials is largely manifested as hydrophilicity. Plasma deposition films exhibit unique advantages. During the plasma process, specific chemical reactions occur to form polymer films, and their hydrophilic groups (such as -0H, - COOH, etc.) are often exposed, resulting in good hydrophilicity of the film. Plasma cleaning has been proven to be a safe, effective, and environmentally friendly surface treatment method. Plasma cleaning can improve the wettability of polymers and other materials, enabling precise distribution of biological media onto various surfaces.

3. The plasma cleaning machine can finely control the surface of materials through plasma activation. For example, in the treatment of titanium alloy artificial joints, the active particles in the plasma react with the material surface to remove surface impurities and introduce active functional groups such as hydroxyl groups, reducing the contact angle of the material surface from 85 ° to below 10 ° and significantly improving hydrophilicity and cell adhesion.

As an advanced surface treatment technology, the plasma cleaning machine of Zhenyi Co., Ltd. is gradually becoming a powerful assistant in the biomedical field with its unique advantages. Low temperature plasma technology can effectively improve the blood compatibility and tissue compatibility of biomedical materials, and plays an important role in multiple key links.