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ANTIBACTERIAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS COATED WITH TITANIUM NANOLAYER USING PLASMA

1 KŘÍŽOVÁ Hana
Co-authors:
1 KREJČÍK Michal 2 ŠAŠKOVÁ Jana 1 LEMBERK Ladislav
Institutions:
1 Technical University of Liberec, Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Department of the Preparation and Analysis of Nanostructures, Bendlova 1409/7, Liberec, Czech Republic, hana.krizova@tul.cz
2 Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Textile Engineering, Department of Material Engineering, Studentská 2, Liberec, Czech Republic
Conference:
11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 16th - 18th 2019
Proceedings:
Proceedings 11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
232-237
ISBN:
978-80-87294-95-6
ISSN:
2694-930X
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37904/nanocon.2019.8329
Published:
1st April 2020
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

PMMA / PTFE optical fibers with increasing lateral emission were coated with titanium nanolayer using low-temperature plasma. We investigated how this nanolayer affected the spectrum of emission when VIS LED and UVA LED light sources were used. Even though the FTIR analysis didn´t confirm the presence of TiO2 in the titanium nanolayer, the fibers exhibited significantly higher antibacterial properties compared to non-coated fibers. If we don´t assume that the titanium surface itself has antibacterial properties, the cause of this phenomenon is in the properties of the formed surface structure. Nevertheless, this treatment could extend the use of polymer optical fibers (POF) to new applications, such as illumination of infectious areas, for example, hospital corridors.

Keywords: polymer optical fibers, titanium nanolayer, low-temperature plasma, antibacterial properties

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