Functional surfaces on AM objects with a low cost atmospheric pressure micro PLAsma COAT instrument integrated on a 3D printing equipment - PLACOATAM

Project summary

PLASCOATAM will design, process an innovative atmospheric pressure plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition solution (AP-PACVD) based on a micro plasma jet that can be integrated on 3D printing equipment and able to perform metallic and inorganic films. As the deposition processing will need to be done on complex surfaces and on thermal sensitive materials, a new type of High voltage nanopulse generator will have to be developed for giving to this AP-PACVD device, the possibility to generate “homogeneous plasma” (less filament discharge) in a very small volume and a relatively extended plasma plume with a limitation of the gas temperature. During the second part, PLACOATAM will propose for the first time, “3+2D printing” concept for a rapid manufacturing of finished functional products where two highly efficient material processes are associated: 3D printing technology and an atmospheric pressure plasma 2D surface deposition process.