Joint Institute of Science and Technology SPbSPU

Research and Innovation Institute of Materials and Technologies

Department of Coating Technologies and Surface Engineering

Areas of scientific activity:

• investigation of physical and chemical laws of chemical vapor deposition of diverse inorganic thin films;
• research and development of plasma-chemical processes for dielectric films production in the remote plasma apparatus;
• research and development of plasma-chemical processes for nanoparticles synthesis and surface treatment, based on applying low-temperature plasma produced by electric discharges in gases under atmospheric pressure;
• construction design and industrial model production of equipment for growing the oriented carbon nanotubes;
• research and development of chemical vapor deposition processes of metal catalytic films on the irregular shape articles and porous carriers;
• engineering and production of microsystem equipment articles;
• research of fundamental laws of thin films nucleation on diverse substrate surfaces by the instrumentality of the nanotechnological complex “Nanofab 25”.

Scientific research and experiment carried out:

• development of technologies for plasma-chemical low-temperature deposition under atmospheric pressure;
• development of technological bases for nanocomposite materials production by means of chemical gas-phase deposition;
• development of technologies for cleaning the probes of atomic-force microscopes;
• development of technologies for surface modification of the probes of atomic-force microscopes for improving their consumer properties.

Department’s main partners:

• Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute of Construction Materials “Prometey”;
• Joint-Stock Company “Svetlana-Electronpribor”;
• “Nanotechnologii-MTD” Co. Ltd.;
• St.Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)
• Joint-Stock Company “Avangard”

Fieldsofimplementation for the Department’s development products:

Electronic and microsystem equipment, medicine, catalyst production, machine building.

Department’s equipment:

Main scientific developments:

• a series of sources of low-temperature plasma under atmospheric pressure, resulting in development of several surface modification technologies for the solid state;
• technology and design of equipment for oriented growing of carbon nanotubes;
• several plasma-chemical processes for thin dielectric films deposition under low temperatures;
• technologies for producing ceramic surfaces with adjustable specific surface and porosity;
• technologies for chemical deposition of layers of diverse substances on the irregular shape articles.

Possibilities for commercial use:

Equipment

• precision surface diagnostics, investigation of solid state structure and composition and surface structures on micro and nanolevels;
• adjustment of technologies for coating processes, surface etching and modification processes;
• clearing-up the reasons of corrosion in materials and objects in different media.