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Plasma Catalysis: Challenges and Future Perspectives

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Plasma catalysis has been demonstrated as a promising alternative to thermal catalysis for environmental clean-up and the synthesis of platform chemicals and fuels from different feedstocks at low temperatures. There have been considerable and increasing research activities in this emerging and interdisciplinary field in recent years. However, plasma catalysis, particularly using a single-stage configuration, is a very complex process involving both gas-phase reactions driven by the plasma and plasma-assisted surface reactions. A number of challenges need to be addressed to achieve significant advancement in this field and the full potential of this emerging technology.

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    J. Christopher Whitehead

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  2. School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    J. Christopher Whitehead

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomohiro Nozaki

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Whitehead, J.C. (2019). Plasma Catalysis: Challenges and Future Perspectives. In: Tu, X., Whitehead, J., Nozaki, T. (eds) Plasma Catalysis. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05189-1_11

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