Editorial Catalysts: Special Issue on Plasma Catalysis

Abstract

Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such as CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, N2 fixation for the synthesis of NH3 or NOx, and CH4 conversion into higher hydrocarbons or oxygenates [...]

Study of oxygen and ozone reactions on surfaces previously treated by ozone

“…Surface reactions are also important for plasma-assisted catalysis. 27,28) Plasma assisted catalysis can offer new ways for production of important chemical compounds-for example for ammonia production 29) or for methanol production through CO 2 hydrogenation 30) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in both cases. In spite of the promising results in the field of plasma-assisted catalysis, the underlying mechanisms of surface reactions between plasma and catalyst are not fully understood.…”

Towards Catalysts Prepared by Cold Plasma

“…Recently, as the field of plasma catalysis began to develop intensively [7], in which catalytic processes are carried out over conventional catalysts, but in a plasma environment, a third research area emerged regarding the effect of plasma on the catalyst used. Although this problem resembles the above-mentioned plasma modification of the surface of a conventional catalyst, in this case, we do not control the parameters of the plasma treatment but only passively observe how the plasma with optimized parameters for the plasma catalysis process is affecting our catalyst.…”