Abstract
Dusty plasmas are electrically quasi-neutral media that, along with electrons, ions, neutral gas, radiation, and electric and/or magnetic fields, also contain solid or liquid particles with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to a few micrometers. These media can be found in many natural environments as well as in various laboratory setups and industrial applications. As a separate branch of plasma physics, the field of dusty plasma physics was born in the beginning of 1990s at the intersection of the interests of the communities investigating astrophysical and technological plasmas. An additional boost to the development of the field was given by the discovery of plasma crystals leading to a series of microgravity experiments of which the purpose was to investigate generic phenomena in condensed matter physics using strongly coupled complex (dusty) plasmas as model systems. Finally, the field has gained an increasing amount of attention due to its inevitable connection to the development of novel applications ranging from the synthesis of functional nanoparticles to nuclear fusion and from particle sensing and diagnostics to nano-contamination control. The purpose of the present perspectives paper is to identify promising new developments and research directions for the field. As such, dusty plasmas are considered in their entire variety: from classical low-pressure noble-gas dusty discharges to atmospheric pressure plasmas with aerosols and from rarefied astrophysical plasmas to dense plasmas in nuclear fusion devices. Both fundamental and application aspects are covered.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 120601 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-52 |
Number of pages | 52 |
Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 7 Dec 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Johannes Berndt and Eva Kovačević acknowledge the project PEGASUS (Plasma Enabled and Graphene Allowed Synthesis of Unique nano-structures), funded by the European Union's Horizon research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 766894 and the EU Graphene Flagship FLAG-ERA III JTC 2021 project VEGA (No. PR-11938), as well as the support obtained via ARD MATEX Region Center, France and project Orleans Metropole, France.
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Dietmar Block acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Project Nos. BL555 3-2 and BL555 4-2.
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Peter J. Bruggeman acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy under Award No. DE-SC-0020232, the National Science Foundation under Award No. PHYS 1903151, and the Army Research Office under Grant No. W911NF-20-1-0105.
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Lorin Swint Matthews acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (Award No. DE-SC-0021334), U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0021334, NVIDIA Corporation Applied Research Accelerator Program, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (No. NSF-1903450).
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I. Mann was supported by the Research Council of Norway through Grant Nos. NFR 275503 and NFR 240065.
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Uwe Kortshagen acknowledges the support from the Army Research Office under MURI (Grant No. W911NF-18-1-0240) and from the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0022242.
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Davide Mariotti acknowledges EPSRC (Award No. EP/V055232/1).
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Yan Feng acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12175159).
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Uwe Konopka acknowledges that his work was supported by NASA-JPL (Subcontract Nos. 1679198 and 1655063).
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Edward Thomas, Jr. acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy (No. SC-0019176) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (No. OIA-2148653).
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Lénaïc Couëdel acknowledges the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Grant No. RGPIN-2019-04333).
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Evdokiya G. Kostadinova acknowledges the U.S. National Science Foundation 2694 (Nos. NSF-1903450 and NSF-2308742).
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R. Mohan Sankaran acknowledges the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0018202 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. FA9550-19-1-0088.
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Peter Hartmann acknowledges the Hungarian National Office for Research, Development and Innovation (NKFIH) (Grant No. K134462).
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Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan acknowledges the funding support from U.S. Department of Energy Early Career (Award No. DE-SC0021146) from the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, U.S. Army Research Office (Award No. W911NF-23-2-0013), and NSF Plasma Physics (Award No. 1903432).
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Gian Luca Delzanno acknowledges the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Los Alamos National Laboratory under Project No. 20230668ER. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Triad National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of U.S. Department of Energy (Contract No. 89233218CNA000001).
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Sergei I. Krasheninnikov acknowledges the support of the work by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-FG02-06ER54852 at UCSD.
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The work of Svetlana Ratynskaia and Panagiotis Tolias has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Program (Grant Agreement No. 101052200-EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.
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Franko Greiner thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaf (DFG) for funding of Project No. GR1608/8-1 Dusty plasmas with high electron depletion: Investigation of fundamental mechanisms and properties through particle and plasma diagnostic.
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Job Beckers acknowledges the financial support from the Dutch Research Council NWO (Project No. 15710).
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Elijah J. Thimsen acknowledges the financial support from the Army Research Office (ARO) MURI (Grant No. W911NF-18-1-0240).
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Keywords
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Phase transitions
- Electrostatics
- Microgravity
- Nanoparticle
- Nuclear fusion
- Aerosols
- Gas discharges
- Plasmas
- Tokomaks