Chemical vapor deposition enables production of pure, uniform coatings of metals or polymers

In a sense, says MIT chemical engineering professor Karen Gleason, you can trace the technology of chemical vapor deposition, or CVD, all the way back to prehistory: "When the cavemen lit a lamp and soot was deposited on the wall of a cave," she says, that was a rudimentary form of CVD.

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