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One of the most perspective directions of the surface engineering development in recent years concerns the possibility of producing coatings with bactericidal properties. For this purpose modern plasma technologies are used. Due to the very large possibilities in shaping the chemical composition of coatings, their microstructure and thickness, as well as the large variety of their deposition methods, they will enable the production of coatings with various functional properties. In recent years, it has become a completely new approach to design functional coatings on the surface of polymer filtration membranes to give them biocidal properties. The article presents the possibilities of using the High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering HiPIMS technology to deposit composite coatings with biocidal properties. In the article, in addition to the results of the bactericidal properties, the authors also presented an analysis of the material properties (microstructure, phase composition), mechanical properties (hardness, Youngs module) and physicochemical properties (wettability) of the tested coatings. The presented results confirmed the very good biocidal properties of the ZnO+Cu coating against various groups of microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) simultaneously.
Keywords: Magnetron sputtering, composite coatings, bactericidal properties, fungicidal properties© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.