title: Plasma treatment for next-generation nanobiointerfaces.
abstract: Energy deficiency, global poverty, chronic hunger, chronic diseases, and environment conservation are among the major problems threatening the whole mankind. Nanostructure-based technologies could be a possible solution. Such techniques are now used for the production of many vitally important products including cultured and fermented food, antibiotics, various medicines, and biofuels. On the other hand, the nanostructure-based technologies still demonstrate low efficiency and controllability, and thus still are not capable to decisively address the global problems. Furthermore, future technologies should ensure lowest possible environmental impact by implementing green production principles. One of the most promising approaches to address these challenges are the sophisticatedly engineered biointerfaces. Here, the authors briefly evaluate the potential of the plasma-based techniques for the fabrication of complex biointerfaces. The authors consider mainly the atmospheric and inductively coupled plasma environments and show several examples of the artificial plasma-created biointerfaces, which can be used for the biotechnological and medical processes, as well as for the drug delivery devices, fluidised bed bioreactors, catalytic reactors, and others. A special attention is paid to the plasma-based treatment and processing of the biointerfaces formed by arrays of carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes.
authors.affiliation: Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories, Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, New South Wales 2070, Australia and Plasma Nanoscience@Complex Systems, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Levchenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keidar
authors.affiliation: Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories, Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, New South Wales 2070, Australia.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mai-Prochnow
authors.affiliation: Department of Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Modic
authors.affiliation: Department of Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Uros
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Cvelbar
authors.affiliation: Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories, Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, New South Wales 2070, Australia and School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Jinghua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories, Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), P.O. Box 218, Lindfield, New South Wales 2070, Australia; and School of Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia.
authors.forename: Kostya Ken
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Ostrikov
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000379:methods; D049329:Nanostructures; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D058626:Plasma Gases
chemical_list: D058626:Plasma Gases