I am about to make antibacterial polymer, but the problem is that I don't know what the right compounds to get plasma coating. What are solutions, voltage, and current should I use to get a plasma coating?
I think the best antibacterial coating should be made of silver. It is possible to deposit Ag on temperature-sensitive polymers by means of combination of a magnetron sputtering source and a neutral atom beam plasma source. If I was you, I'd take a look at this paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040609001013268
I think depends on coating composition the voltage and current can be different . Its better you find the suitable coating and then in according to your available apparatus
choose your method to plasma deposition. I really suggest you to use active screen plasma nitriding with silver screen to achieve antibacterial coating on polymer . Good luck
If the surface is going to be exposed to sunlight, there has been some excellent research into using TiO2 for this purpose. It works well because it's a photocatalyst. For instance, http://www.freshpatents.com/Photocatalytic-titanium-oxide-sol-and-coating-composition-and-member-using-the-same-dt20080403ptan20080081758.php
Also work into combining them with silver and copper oxide, http://www.freshpatents.com/Process-for-preparing-copper-oxide-coated-antibacterial-material-dt20060803ptan20060172013.php
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