Kurt Becker, NYU Tandon’s Vice Dean for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, is among a group of prominent plasma scientists from the U.S., Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Japan, and Australia who published a seminal report on the Future of Plasma Science and Plasma Technology. The study, published in the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, summarizes the outcomes of two recent workshops attended by more than 100 plasma scientists from almost 20 nations around the globe. The paper assesses the current status of selected high-value plasma-enabled applications, highlights new and emerging technologies that leverage plasmas and identifies the underlying basic science that is needed to support the development and implementation of these new applications.
January 9, 2019


