Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is largely threatening global public health, social stability, and economy. Efforts of the scientific community are turning to this global crisis and should present future preventative measures. With recent trends in polymer science that use plasma to activate and enhance the functionalities of polymer surfaces by surface etching, surface grafting, coating and activation combined with recent advances in understanding polymer-virus interactions at the nanoscale, it is promising to employ advanced plasma processing for smart antiviral applications. This trend article highlights the innovative and emerging directions and approaches in plasma-based surface engineering to create antiviral polymers. After introducing the unique features of plasma processing of polymers, novel plasma strategies that can be applied to engineer polymers with antiviral properties are presented and critically evaluated. The challenges and future perspectives of exploiting the unique plasma-specific effects to engineer smart polymers with virus-capture, virus-detection, virus-repelling, and/or virus-inactivation functionalities for biomedical applications are analysed and discussed.

2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）在很大程度上威胁着全球公共卫生、社会稳定和经济。科学界的努力正在转向这场全球危机，并应提出未来的预防措施。随着聚合物科学的最新趋势，即使用等离子体通过表面蚀刻、表面接枝、涂层和活化来激活和增强聚合物表面的功能，再加上理解纳米尺度聚合物-病毒相互作用的最新进展，采用先进的等离子体处理是有希望的用于智能抗病毒应用。这篇趋势文章重点介绍了基于等离子体的表面工程制造抗病毒聚合物的创新和新兴方向和方法。在介绍了聚合物等离子体处理的独特特征后，提出并严格评估了可用于工程具有抗病毒特性的聚合物的新颖等离子体策略。分析和讨论了利用独特的等离子体特异性效应来设计具有病毒捕获、病毒检测、病毒排斥和/或病毒灭活功能的智能聚合物以用于生物医学应用的挑战和未来前景。