Department of Nuclear Engineering

11th IWM 2020 will be held in Raleigh in 2022

• The “International Workshop on Microplasmas” (IWM) will be held in Raleigh June 6 – 10, 2022.
  • Read more: www.iwm11.org

Watch our group members Duncan Trosan and Nicholas Sponsel in their IOPS oral presentation! 

• Ph.D. candidates Duncan Trosan and Nicholas Sponsel presented on the International Online Plasma Seminar (IOPS) their research on “Biomedical applications of flexible surface DBDs” and “Breakdown in bubbles in liquids”, respectively.
  • Read more: http://www.apsgec.org/main/iops.php

Congratulations to our recent graduate Dr. Brayden Myers! 

• Dr. Brayden Myers has graduated in December 2021 and will be taking a postdoctoral position at the Swiss Plasma Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. Best of luck Dr. Myers we are proud of you! 
  • Read more: https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/news/2021/brayden-myers-successfully-defends-phd-dissertation/

Our group members presented part of our research at the American Physical Society’s 2021 Gaseous Electronics Conference. Check out the abstracts below or presentation videos with your GEC registration. 

• Dr. Katharina Stapelmann presented on the plasma-liquid interaction III session on “In situ detection of atomic oxygen in liquids using TALIF”
  • Read more: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/GEC21/Session/RR42.1

• Ph.D. candidate Duncan P. Trosan presented on the plasma for agriculture session on “High-Quality Manufacturing of Packaged Fresh Produce with Conformable In-Package Cold Atmospheric Plasma”
  • Read more: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/GEC21/Session/GT53.1

• Ph.D. candidate María Herrera Quesada presented on the plasma-liquid interaction II session on “Exploring chemical modifications caused by the COST-Jet in an NO-rich gas admixture by means of FTIR and Mass Spectrometry on the simple biological model cysteine” 
  • Read more: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/GEC21/Session/MR12.3

• Ph.D. candidate Nicholas L. Sponsel presented on the poster session on “Plasma Streamer Propagation Across Free-flowing Bubbles in Water”
  • Read more: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/GEC21/Session/GT61.15

Contributing to the IOP Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Special Issue “Emerging Leader 2021”

• Dr. Katharina Stapelmann and her team published an article as part of the “Emerging Leader” Special Issue of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
  • The article reports on O and OH in He/O2 and He/H2O gas mixtures in the COST jet and follows those species from the gas phase through the liquid to a biological sample
  • Read more: Link to the article, Link to the Emerging Leaders Special Issue

Drs. Stapelmann and Brudno selected for the UNC Lineberger Innovation Award

• Drs. Katharina Stapelmann and Yevgeny Brudno were selected as recipients of the 2021-22 UNC Lineberger Innovation Award. Their project, “Non-Thermal Plasma Immunogenic Cell Death in Pancreatic Cancer Cells”, will investigate the cause-effect relationship between specific plasma-generated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and cellular responses related to immunogenic cell death.
  • Read more: https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/news/2021/stapelmann-brudno-selected-for-the-unc-lineberger-innovation-award/

Drs. Stapelmann and Bolotnov win National Science Foundation Award

• The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Dr. Katharina Stapelmann (PI) and Dr. Igor Bolotnov (co-PI) funds for their project “Plasma Breakdown and Instabilities in the Multiphase Plasma-Gas Bubble-Liquid System”, where they will study the interaction of air bubbles in water with atmospheric pressure plasma. Gas/liquid systems with steep property changes consisting of plasma, gas, and liquid, have incredible promise for various fields of applications ranging from water cleaning to agriculture applications and plasma-activated liquids for medical use. 
  • Read more: https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/news/2021/drs-stapelmann-and-bolotnov-win-national-science-foundation-award/

Plant Science meets Nuclear Engineering

• One of the Game-changing Research Incentive Programs GRIP4PSI was awarded to PI Stapelmann and co-PI’s. In the project “Harnessing (bio-) Electrochemical Technologies as Sustainable Sources for On-Demand Precision Agriculture”, she and her 11 collaborators from 9 departments at NCSU will explore plasma and bacteria to produce fertilizer on demand. Integrated in an irrigation system and driven by fiberoptic sensors in the soil, a “fertigation on demand” system for precision agriculture will be developed within the course of the 3.5 year project.
  • Read more: https://research.ncsu.edu/blog/2020/02/grip4psi-seed-grant/

IWPCT 2020, postponed to 2023, will be held in Raleigh

• The “International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment” (IWPCT) will be held in Raleigh in 2023.
  • Read more: www.iwpct2020.org