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Energetics of reactions in a dielectric barrier discharge with argon carrier gas: V hydrocarbons
Author(s) -
Nisol Bernard,
Watson Sean,
Lerouge Sophie,
Wertheimer Michael R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
plasma processes and polymers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1612-8869
pISSN - 1612-8850
DOI - 10.1002/ppap.201600191
Subject(s) - dielectric barrier discharge , argon , monomer , plasma polymerization , atmospheric pressure , plasma , reagent , dielectric , molecule , polymerization , chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , hydrocarbon , fluorine , photochemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , polymer , optoelectronics , oceanography , physics , quantum mechanics , geology
We report dielectric barrier discharge (DBD)‐based atmospheric pressure (AP) plasma polymerization (PP) experiments using argon carrier gas and a wide variety of hydrocarbon molecules as the precursors (“monomers”). As in our preceding research with other reagents, unprecedented precision and reproducibility in energy measurements is again demonstrated. Measurements based on various aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon compounds have yielded values of E m , the energy absorbed from the plasma by each monomer molecule. Systematic differences among families of compounds enabled us to draw several important conclusions about fragmentation and polymerization in the DBD plasma environment, observations which are in fair qualitative agreement with low‐pressure radio‐frequency PP data by Yasuda and Hirotsu from the 1970s.