Plasma Engineering: Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology - Brossura

Keidar, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0323282113 ISBN 13: 9780323282116

Casa editrice: Academic Press, 2016

Riassunto

Plasma engineering applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion, and nanofabrication. Plasma Engineering considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint, addressing fundamentals of physics and modeling as well as new real-word applications in aerospace, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. The book starts by reviewing plasma particle collisions, waves, and instabilities, and proceeds to diagnostic tools, such as planar, spherical, and emissive probes, and the electrostatic analyzer, interferometric technique, and plasma spectroscopy. The physics of different types of electrical discharges are considered, including the classical Townsend mechanism of gas electrical breakdown and the Paschen law. Basic approaches and theoretical methodologies for plasma modeling are described, based on the fluid description of plasma solving numerically magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations and the kinetic model particle techniques that take into account kinetic interactions among particles and electromagnetic fields. Readers are then introduced to the widest variety of applications in any text on the market. Space propulsion applications such as the Hall thruster, pulsed plasma thrusters, and microthruster are explained. Application of low-temperature plasmas in nanoscience and nanotechnology, another frontier in plasma physics, is covered, including plasma-based techniques for carbon-based nanoparticle synthesis (e.g, fundamental building blocks like single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene). Plasma medicine, an emerging field studying plasmas for therapeutic applications, is examined as well. The latest original results on cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) applications in medicine are presented, with a focus on the therapeutic potential of CAP with a in selective tumor cell eradication and signali

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L'autore

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringThe George Washington UniversityResearch Activities: Advanced spacecraft propulsion, plasma medicine, bioengineering, plasma-based nanotechnology. Teaching: thermodynamics, heat transfer, propulsion, plasma engineeringAwards:2009 Outstanding SEAS Young Researcher Award2008 elected Associate Fellow, AIAA2006 Research Faculty Recognition Award by University of MichiganProfessional Memberships:The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Senior MemberAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Associate FellowAmerican Physical Society (APS), MemberInternational Society of Plasma Medicine (ISPM), Founding MemberMember of AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee (EP)Founder and Director, Micropropulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL)Steering Committee, Plasma Nanoscience Symposium (iPlasmaNanoSym)Steering Committee, GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBE)Editorial Board: International Journal of Plasma Science and Engineering

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Academic Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0323282113
• ISBN 13: 9780323282116
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 442
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile