PLASMANT

29/08/2022

Did you know Belgian researchers 🇧🇪 have made important discoveries that could potentially make life possible on Mars🪐?

A research group at UAntwerpen in Belgium, called PLASMANT, has discovered a method that would allow the atmosphere of Mars to be used to convert CO2 into Oxygen and CO, and to turn nitrogen into a good basis for fertilizer!

Plasmant did the experiments 🧪 with a self-built plasma reactor. This crucial substance could be used for life support and transportation on Mars!

Read more about this important discovery: belganewsagency.eu/life-on-mars-belgian-researchers-create-crucial-substances-to-survive-on-red-planet

📸 © JPL/Caltech/NASA/AFP

01/05/2022

What an amazing week @ Plasmant!
We kicked off with the 10-miles where we had some amazing runners and an amazing cheer team! 💪

To continue the week with a coloured team spirit into the colour week! Every day was dedicated to another colour (and as the plasmanters know filled with delicious coloured treats! )

Thank you to all that participated! And let's continue staying healthy and colourful throughout may! 🌈

11/02/2022

Proud to present to you all our amazing Plasmant women for the international day of women in science! ✨

16/12/2021

Very proud of dr. Abraham Lin for winning the Robert Oppenheimer Award for his excellent research.

Academische Prijzen 2021 - Prijs Robert Oppenheimer 2021 voor dr. Abraham Lin.

31/10/2021

It’s almost ghost hour! 👻

Happy Halloween from Plasmant 🎃!

10/10/2021

During the week we work our minds but this Sunday we work our legs 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️

13/09/2021

From today Plasmant has a new LinkedIn page!

Follow us on: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plasmant

09/09/2021

Who thought Plasmant people only were good at working with plasma's thought wrong! At last weekend's teambuilding, they proved they are master bbq'ers, t-shirt designers, Olympic swimmers and party people as well! 🤩

07/08/2021

Congrats to Priyanka Shaw for receiving the best paper award at ICPM 8.

12/07/2021

*NEW ARTICLES*

"Thermal instability and volume contraction in a pulsed microwave N2 plasma at sub-atmospheric pressure." by S. Kelly, A. van de Steeg, A. Hughes, G. van Rooij and A. Bogaerts in Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 30, 055005 (2021)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/abf1d6

"Flowing Atmospheric Pressure Afterglow for Ambient Ionization: Reaction Pathways Revealed by Modeling." by M. Aghaei and A. Bogaerts in A**l. Chem. 2021, 93, 17, 6620–6628
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04076
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"Nitrogen fixation in pulsed microwave discharge studied by infrared absorption combined with modelling." by O.S. Bahnamiri, C. Verheyen, R. Snyders, A. Bogaerts and N. Britun
Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., 30, 065007 (2021)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/abff0e

Published 4 June 2021 • © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Volume 30, Number 6 Citation Omid Samadi Bahnamiri et al 2021 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 30 065007

11/05/2021

*NEW ARTICLES*

"The Quest to Quantify Selective and Synergistic Effects of Plasma for Cancer Treatment: Insights from Mathematical Modeling." by C. Bengtson and A. Bogaerts in Int. J. Mol. Sci., 22, 5033 (2021)​
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/9/5033

"Methane to Methanol through Heterogeneous Catalysis and Plasma Catalysis." by S. Li, R. Ahmed, Y. Yi and A. Bogaerts in Catalysts, 11, 590 (2021)​
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/11/5/590/htm

"Oxidative damage to hyaluronan–CD44 interactions as an underlying mechanism of action of oxidative stress-inducing cancer therapy." by M. Yusupov, A. Privat-Maldonado, R. M. Cordeiro, H. Verswyvel, P. Shaw, J. Razzokov, E. Smits, A. Bogaerts in Redox Biology, 43, 101968 (2021)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231721001166?via%3Dihub

"Cold Atmospheric Plasma Increases Temozolomide Sensitivity of Three-Dimensional Glioblastoma Spheroids via Oxidative Stress-Mediated DNA Damage." by P. Shaw, N. Kumar, A. Privat-Maldonado, E. Smits and A. Bogaerts in Cancers, 13, 1780 (2021)​
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/8/1780

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most frequent and aggressive primary malignant brain tumor in adults. Current standard radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy with the alkylating agent temozolomide (TMZ) yield poor clinical outcome. This is due to the stem-like properties of tumor cells and gene...