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We report a new very interesting work that is demonstrating polymer thin films made by IJD. CTU’s researchers successfully grown coatings made of PMMA, PS and PVC starting from bulk pieces of material:
Jakub Skočdopole, Ladislav Kalvoda, Petr Nozar, Miloš Netopilík
Preparation of polymeric coatings by ionized jet deposition method, Chemical Papers (2017),
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-018-0426-6

Reducing of the thickness of a polymeric layer under a certain threshold gives rise to interesting properties, difficult to be predicted and fundamentally different from those of the bulk material. For this reason polymer thin films have attracted great interest in research and industry due to the large potential in solving different technological problems.

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Researchers at Biomechanics Laboratory at Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli used IJD stoichiomerty conservation capabilities in a very original way using properly treated animal bones as a starting material to produce bone apatite-like (BAL) coatings on orthopedic and dentistry implants.

The use of natural apatite allow to have a ideal composition including small amounts of elements that may be relevant in promoting osseointegration and would be very difficult to be
included in a laboratory synthesized target.

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We are glad to announce that the first IJD source model K1A has been installed at the Laboratory of Applied Photonics directed by doc. Ing. Ladislav Kalvoda, CSc. located in the Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague.

The new source will be used in research activities with particoular focus in the following fields: adaptive layers highly resistant to mechanical loads and radiation exposure,  active layers of radiation detectors and solar cells, and “composition maps” applicable in high entropy alloys development.

The deposition chamber has been developed and installed by Czech Vacuum, Noivion’s representative for East Europe.