Plasma as a High-Tech Magic Wand of Modern Technology

PLASMA AS A HIGH-TECH MAGIC WAND OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY 

Among otherexamples, when plasma abihties are extraordirrary andtrrrique, we canpoint out plasma production of ozone where no other technologies are able to challenge plasma for more than 100 years, thermonuclear plasma as a major futirre source of energy, and low-temperature fuel conversion where lydrogen is produced without CO2 exhaust, which is 

Still under research (see Section 10.6). A student of the Diexel Plasma Institute inFig. 1-10 holds in his hands a pencil-like active 35-kV FE-DBD electrode, which can be safely and directly applied to the human body and opens possibilities to cure diseases that were previously incurable (see Chapter 12). This plasma medical device even looks like a magic wand. Each type of magic, however, requires a well-prepared magician. With these words, we now step from the introduction into the following chapters focused on the fundamentals of plasma chemistry. 

Plasma is an ionized gas. The key process in plasma is ionization, which means conversion of neutral atoms or molecules into electrons and positive ions. Thus, ionization is the first elementary plasma-chemical processes to be considered. 

The EEDF strongly depends on electric field and gas composition in plasma (especially in non-thermal discharges) and often can be very far from the equilibrium distribution. 

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