Professor Kostya Ostrikov of the Plasma Nanoscience Centre Australia, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, has recently written a paper in the IOP Publishing’s Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, describing the ability of plasma nanoscience to monitor energy and matter at basic levels in order to develop cost-effective, eco-friendly nano-materials to be used in multiple areas of human activity and health.
Professor Ostrikov has won the Australian Future Fellowship (2011) of the Australian Research Council, besides several fellowships, professorships and other global awards. He comments that it is possible to discover the best, most suitable plasmas and procedures for specific nanomaterials using plasma nanoscience. He adds that the worlds best and most suitable denote quality, output, cost, eco-and-human-friendly, and energy effective applications.
Plasma is an ionised gas at temperatures from a few to thousands Kelvin, and can be used to develop and process nano materials for energy conversion, electronics, IT and health care applications. It is able to synthesize carbon nanotubes whose size, dimension, and structure, can impact energy production, transfer and storage.
Ostrikov has used prevailing research data to offer proof that plasma can be monitored down to basic levels resulting in cost-efficient and eco-friendly procedures. He says plasma can deliver a cost- effective, rapid and energy efficient method of travelling from controlled complexity to practical simplicity.
Source: http://www.iop.org