Summary
With support from the Chemical Catalysis program in the Division of Chemistry, Casey O’Brien and William Schneider of the University of Notre Dame are working collaboratively (1) to clarify the mechanisms by which atmospheric pressure plasmas couple with solid surfaces to access and stabilize metastable nitrogen species, and (2) to explore the potential to exploit these metastable states to drive novel reactions. The integration of atmospheric pressure plasmas with heterogeneous catalysts (plasma catalysis) has recently gained considerable attention because of its potential to carry out trans
