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Author Kumar, N.; Attri, P.; Dewilde, S.; Bogaerts, A. pdf  url
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  Title Inactivation of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with atmospheric plasma treated media and water: a comparative study Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2018 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 51 Issue 25 Pages 255401  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract In recent years, the interest in treating cancer cells with plasma treated media (PTM) and plasma treated water (PTW) has increased tremendously. However, the actions of PTM and PTW are still not entirely understood. For instance, it is not clear whether the action of PTM is due to a modification in proteins/amino acids after plasma treatment of the media, or due to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) generated from the plasma, or a combination of both effects. To differentiate between the actions of RONS and modified proteins/amino acids on the treatment of cancer cells, we compared the effects of PTM and PTW on two different pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (MiaPaca-2, BxPc3) and pancreatic stellate cells

(PSCs) (hPSC128-SV). PSCs closely interact with cancer cells to create a tumor-promoting environment that stimulates local tumor progression and metastasis. We treated culture media and deionized water with a cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) jet, and subsequently applied this PTM/PTW at various ratios to the pancreatic cancer and PSC cell lines. We evaluated cell death, intracellular ROS concentrations and the mRNA expression profiles of four oxidative stress-related genes, i.e. Mitogen-activated protein kinase 7 (MAPK7), B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2), Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHEK1) and DNA damage-inducible transcript 3, also known as C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP). Our findings demonstrate that PTM and PTW have a similar efficacy to kill pancreatic cancer cells, while PTW is slightly more effective in killing PSCs, as compared to PTM. Furthermore, we observed an enhancement of the intracellular ROS concentrations in both pancreatic cancer cells and PSCs. Thus, it is likely that under our experimental conditions, the anti-cancer activity of PTM can be attributed more to the RONS present in the treated liquid, than to the modification of proteins/amino acids in the media. Furthermore, the fact that the chemo-resistant PSCs were killed by PTM/PTW may offer possibilities for new anti-cancer therapies for pancreatic cancer cells, including PSCs.
 
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  Language Wos 000434266900001 Publication Date 2018-06-04  
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  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited 6 Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO) (grant number 12J5617N) and from the European Marie Skłodowska–Curie Individual Fellowship ‘Anticancer-PAM’ within Horizon2020 (grant number 743546). We also thank Atsushi Masamune (Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) for providing us with human PSCs (hPSC128-SV) for this study. Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:151962 Serial 4997  
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Author Razzokov, J.; Yusupov, M.; Cordeiro, R.M.; Bogaerts, A. pdf  url
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  Title Atomic scale understanding of the permeation of plasma species across native and oxidized membranes Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2018 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 51 Issue 36 Pages 365203  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Cold atmospheric plasmas (CAPs) have attracted significant interest for their potential benefits in medical applications, including cancer therapy. The therapeutic effects of CAPs are related to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS) present in the plasma. The impact of ROS has been extensively studied, but the role of RNS in CAP-treatment remains poorly understood at the molecular level. Here, we investigate the permeation of RNS and ROS across native and oxidized phospholipid bilayers (PLBs) by means of computer simulations. The results reveal significantly lower free energy barriers for RNS (i.e. NO, NO2, N2O4) and O3 compared to hydrophilic ROS, such as OH, HO2 and H2O2. This suggests that the investigated RNS and O3 can permeate more easily through both native and oxidized PLBs in comparison to hydrophilic ROS, indicating their potentially important role in plasma medicine.  
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  Language Wos 000441182400002 Publication Date 2018-08-08  
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  ISSN (down) 0022-3727 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited 10 Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes M Y gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO), grant 1200216N. The computational work was carried out using the Turing HPC infrastructure at the CalcUA core facility of the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), a division of the Flemish Supercomputer Center VSC, funded by the Hercules Foundation, the Flemish Government (department EWI) and the UA. RMC thanks FAPESP and CNPq for financial support (grants 2012/50680-5 and 459270/2014-1, respectively). Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:152824 Serial 5005  
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Author Gröger, S.; Ramakers, M.; Hamme, M.; Medrano, J.A.; Bibinov, N.; Gallucci, F.; Bogaerts, A.; Awakowicz, P. pdf  url
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  Title Characterization of a nitrogen gliding arc plasmatron using optical emission spectroscopy and high-speed camera Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2019 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 52 Issue 6 Pages 065201  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract A gliding arc plasmatron (GAP), which is very promising for purification and gas conversion,

is characterized in nitrogen using optical emission spectroscopy and high-speed photography,

because the cross sections of electron impact excitation of N 2 are well known. The gas

temperature (of about 5500 K), the electron density (up to 1.5 × 10 15 cm −3 ) and the reduced

electric field (of about 37 Td) are determined using an absolutely calibrated intensified charge-

coupled device (ICCD) camera, equipped with an in-house made optical arrangement for

simultaneous two-wavelength diagnostics, adapted to the transient behavior of a GA channel

in turbulent gas flow. The intensities of nitrogen molecular emission bands, N 2 (C–B,0–0) as

well as N +

2 (B–X,0–0), are measured simultaneously. The electron density and the reduced

electric field are determined at a spatial resolution of 30 µm, using numerical simulation and

measured emission intensities, applying the Abel inversion of the ICCD images. The temporal

behavior of the GA plasma channel and the formation of plasma plumes are studied using a

high-speed camera. Based on the determined plasma parameters, we suggest that the plasma

plume formation is due to the magnetization of electrons in the plasma channel of the GAP by

an axial magnetic field in the plasma vortex.
 
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  Language Wos 000451745900001 Publication Date 2018-11-30  
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  Notes The authors are very grateful to Professor Kurt Behringer for the development of the program code for simulation of emis- sion spectra of nitrogen. Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @UA @ admin @ c:irua:155974 Serial 5141  
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Author Jia, W.-Z.; Zhang, Q.-Z.; Wang, X.-F.; Song, Y.-H.; Zhang, Y.-Y.; Wang, Y.-N. pdf  url
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  Title Effect of dust particle size on the plasma characteristics in a radio frequency capacitively coupled silane plasma Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2019 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 52 Issue 1 Pages 015206  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Compared with dust-free plasmas, the existence of dust particles in plasmas may greatly influence the plasma properties. such as the plasma density, electron temperature, sheath properties, electron energy distribution function (EEDF) as well as the heating mechanism. In this work, a 1D hybrid fluid/MC model has been developed to investigate the interaction between dust and plasma in a low-pressure silane discharge sustained in a radio frequency capacitively coupled plasma, in which we assume spherical dust particles with a given radius are generated by taking the sum of the production rate of Si2H4- and Si2H5- as the nucleation rate. From our simulation, the plasma may experience definite perturbation by dust particles with a certain radius (more than 50nm) with an increase in electron temperature first, which further induces a rapid rise in the positive and negative ion densities. Then, the densities begin to decline due to the gradual lack of sufficient seed electrons. In addition, as the dust radius increases, the high energy tails of the EEDFs will be enhanced for discharge maintenance, accompanied by a decline in the population of low-energy electrons in comparison with those of pristine plasma. Furthermore, an obvious bulk heating is observed apart from the a-mode and local field reversal heating. This may contribute to the enhanced bulk electric field (also called the drift field) as a result of electron depletion via the dust. In addition, large-sized dust particles that accumulate near the sheaths tend to form two stable density peaks with their positions largely influenced by the time-averaged sheath thickness. A detailed study of the effects of the external parameters, including pressure, voltage and frequency, on the spatial distribution of dust particles is also conducted.  
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  Language Wos 000448423800002 Publication Date 2018-10-02  
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  ISSN (down) 0022-3727 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number UA @ admin @ c:irua:155361 Serial 5271  
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Author Khalili, M.; Daniels, L.; Lin, A.; Krebs, F.C.; Snook, A.E.; Bekeschus, S.; Bownel, W.B.; Miller, V. pdf  url
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  Title Non-thermal plasma-induced immunogenic cell death in cancer Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2019 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 52 Issue 42 Pages 423001  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Recent advances in biomedical research in cancer immunotherapy have identified the use of an oxidative stress-based approach to treat cancers, which works by inducing immunogenic cell death (ICD) in cancer cells. Since the anti-cancer effects of non-thermal plasma (NTP) are largely attributed to the reactive oxygen and nitrogen species that are delivered to and generated inside the target cancer cells, it is reasonable to postulate that NTP would be an effective modality for ICD induction. NTP treatment of tumors has been shown to destroy cancer cells rapidly and, under specific treatment regimens, this leads to systemic tumorspecific immunity. The translational benefit of NTP for treatment of cancer relies on its ability to enhance the interactions between NTP-exposed minor cells and local immune cells which initiates subsequent protective immune responses. This review discusses results from recent investigations of NTP application to induce ICD in cancer cells. With further optimization of clinical devices and treatment protocols, NTP can become an essential part of the therapeutic armament against cancer.  
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  Language Wos 000479103100001 Publication Date 2019-07-13  
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  ISSN (down) 0022-3727 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited 6 Open Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number UA @ admin @ c:irua:161774 Serial 6313  
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Author Bogaerts, A.; Tu, X.; Whitehead, J.C.; Centi, G.; Lefferts, L.; Guaitella, O.; Azzolina-Jury, F.; Kim, H.-H.; Murphy, A.B.; Schneider, W.F.; Nozaki, T.; Hicks, J.C.; Rousseau, A.; Thevenet, F.; Khacef, A.; Carreon, M. pdf  url
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  Title The 2020 plasma catalysis roadmap Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2020 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 53 Issue 44 Pages 443001  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such as CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, CH4 activation into hydrogen, higher hydrocarbons or oxygenates, and NH3 synthesis. Other applications are already more established, such as for air pollution control, e.g. volatile organic compound remediation, particulate matter and NOx removal. In addition, plasma is also very promising for catalyst synthesis and treatment. Plasma catalysis clearly has benefits over ‘conventional’ catalysis, as outlined in the Introduction. However, a better insight into the underlying physical and chemical processes is crucial. This can be obtained by experiments applying diagnostics, studying both the chemical processes at the catalyst surface and the physicochemical mechanisms of plasma-catalyst interactions, as well as by computer modeling. The key challenge is to design cost-effective, highly active and stable catalysts tailored to the plasma environment. Therefore, insight from thermal catalysis as well as electro- and photocatalysis is crucial. All these aspects are covered in this Roadmap paper, written by specialists in their field, presenting the state-of-the-art, the current and future challenges, as well as the advances in science and technology needed to meet these challenges.  
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  Language Wos 000563194400001 Publication Date 2020-10-28  
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  Impact Factor 3.4 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes U.S. Department of Energy, DE-FE0031862 DE-FG02-06ER15830 ; U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-18-1-0157 ; University of Antwerp, 32249 ; JSPS KAKENSHI, JP18H01208 ; UK EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account; National Science Foundation, EEC-1647722 ; H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 823745 ; Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, 810182 – SCOPE ERC Synergy pr ; This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 810182—SCOPE ERC Synergy project). Approved Most recent IF: 3.4; 2020 IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:171915 Serial 6408  
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Author Heirman, P.; Verloy, R.; Baroen, J.; Privat-Maldonado, A.; Smits, E.; Bogaerts, A. pdf  url
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  Title Liquid treatment with a plasma jet surrounded by a gas shield: effect of the treated substrate and gas shield geometry on the plasma effluent conditions Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2024 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.  
  Volume 57 Issue 11 Pages 115204  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT); Center for Oncological Research (CORE)  
  Abstract The treatment of a well plate by an atmospheric pressure plasma jet is common for<italic>in vitro</italic>plasma medicine research. Here, reactive species are largely produced through the mixing of the jet effluent with the surrounding atmosphere. This mixing can be influenced not only by the ambient conditions, but also by the geometry of the treated well. To limit this influence and control the atmosphere, a shielding gas is sometimes applied. However, the interplay between the gas shield and the well geometry has not been investigated. In this work, we developed a 2D-axisymmetric computational fluid dynamics model of the kINPen plasma jet, to study the mixing of the jet effluent with the surrounding atmosphere, with and without gas shield. Our computational and experimental results show that the choice of well type can have a significant influence on the effluent conditions, as well as on the effectiveness of the gas shield. Furthermore, the geometry of the shielding gas device can substantially influence the mixing as well. Our results provide a deeper understanding of how the choice of setup geometry can influence the plasma treatment, even when all other operating parameters are unchanged.  
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  Language Wos 001127372200001 Publication Date 2024-03-15  
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  Impact Factor 3.4 Times cited Open Access Not_Open_Access  
  Notes Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, 1100421N ; Approved Most recent IF: 3.4; 2024 IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:201999 Serial 8977  
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Author van ‘t Veer, K.; van Alphen, S.; Remy, A.; Gorbanev, Y.; De Geyter, N.; Snyders, R.; Reniers, F.; Bogaerts, A. pdf  url
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  Title Spatially and temporally non-uniform plasmas: microdischarges from the perspective of molecules in a packed bed plasma reactor Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 54 Issue 17 Pages 174002  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) typically operate in the filamentary regime and thus exhibit great spatial and temporal non-uniformity. In order to optimize DBDs for various applications, such as in plasma catalysis, more fundamental insight is needed. Here, we consider how the millions of microdischarges, characteristic for a DBD, influence individual gas molecules. We use a Monte Carlo approach to determine the number of microdischarges to which a single molecule would be exposed, by means of particle tracing simulations through a full-scale packed bed DBD reactor, as well as an empty DBD reactor. We find that the fraction of microdischarges to which the molecules are exposed can be approximated as the microdischarge volume over the entire reactor gas volume. The use of this concept provides good agreement between a plasma-catalytic kinetics model and experiments for plasma-catalytic NH3 synthesis. We also show that the concept of the fraction of microdischarges indicates the efficiency by which the plasma power is transferred to the gas molecules. This generalised concept is also applicable for other spatially and temporally non-uniform plasmas.  
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  Language Wos 000618776000001 Publication Date 2021-04-29  
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  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes Excellence of Science FWO-FNRS project, FWO grant ID GoF9618n ; Flemish Government, project P2C (HBC.2019.0108) ; H2020 European Research Council, grant agreement No 810182 – SCOPE ERC Synergy pr ; This research was supported by the Excellence of Science FWO-FNRS project (FWO Grant ID GoF9618n, EOS ID 30505023), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No 810182—SCOPE ERC Synergy project) and by the Flemish Government through the Moonshot cSBO project P2C (HBC. 2019.0108). The calculations were performed using the Turing HPC infrastructure at the CalcUA core facility of the Universiteit Antwerpen (UAntwerpen), a division of the Flemish Supercomputer Center VSC, funded by the Hercules Foundation, the Flemish Government (department EWI) and the UAntwerpen. The authors would also like to thank Hamid Ahmadi Eshtehardi for discussions on the plasma-kinetic DBD model and Yannick Engelmann for discussions on the surface kinetics model. Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:175878 Serial 6674  
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Author Song, C.-H.; Attri, P.; Ku, S.-K.; Han, I.; Bogaerts, A.; Choi, E.H. pdf  url
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  Title Cocktail of reactive species generated by cold atmospheric plasma: oral administration induces non-small cell lung cancer cell death Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 54 Issue 18 Pages 185202  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer, with 85% of all lung cancer reported as NSCLC. Moreover, there are no effective treatments in advanced NSCLC. This study shows for the first time that oral administration of plasma-treated water (PTW) can cure advanced NSCLC. The cold plasma in water generates a cocktail of reactive species, and oral administration of this cocktail to mice showed no toxicities even at the highest dose of PTW, after a single dose and repeated doses for 28 d in mice. In vivo studies reveal that PTW showed favorable anticancer effects on chemo-resistant lung cancer, similarly to gefitinib treatment as a reference drug in a chemo-resistant NSCLC model. The anticancer activities of PTW seem to be involved in inhibiting proliferation and angiogenesis and enhancing apoptosis in the cancer cells. Interestingly, the PTW contributes to enhanced immune response and improved cachexia in the model.  
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  Language Wos 000621503200001 Publication Date 2021-05-06  
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  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, NRF-2016K1A4A3914113 ; We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Leading Foreign Research Institute Recruitment program (Grant # NRF-2016K1A4A3914113) through the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea and in part by Kwangwoon University. Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:176649 Serial 6747  
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Author Wang, W.; Butterworth, T.; Bogaerts, A. pdf  doi
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  Title Plasma propagation in a single bead DBD reactor at different dielectric constants : insights from fluid modelling Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 54 Issue 21 Pages 214004  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Packed bed dielectric barrier discharge (PB-DBD) plasma reactors are very promising for various plasma catalysis applications, but the exact mechanisms of plasma-catalyst interaction are far from understood, because the plasma discharge and catalyst/packing properties are mutually dependent. To better understand the effect of packing dielectric material on the electrical plasma properties, we study here a single bead DBD plasma reactor operating in dry air, with beads of different dielectric constant and for different applied voltages, by means of fluid modelling validated by optical imaging experiments. Our study reveals that the plasma in the single bead DBD reactor can manifest itself in two different modalities, i.e. (a) polar discharges at the bead poles in contact with the electrodes, and (b) a streamer discharge caused by surface ionization waves, which bridges the gas gap. Beads with high dielectric constant result in localised electric field enhancement and hence yield a reduction of the applied voltage required for plasma production. At low applied voltage, the discharge appears as polar discharges between the bead and the electrodes, and upon higher voltage it undergoes a transition into a bridging streamer discharge. The transition voltage to the streamer mode rises for beads with higher dielectric constant. These observations are important for plasma catalysis applications. A higher dielectric constant yields a higher electric field and thus higher average electron energy and density, giving rise to more reactive species, but it also yields a confined discharge near the contact points of packing beads, limiting the interaction area between the catalyst and the active plasma species. In addition, our model reveals that the dielectric bead behaves as a capacitor and traps charges, which can explain the significant occurrence of partial discharging in PB-DBDs and non-parallelogram shaped Lissajous plots. Hence, equivalent circuit modelling of PB-DBDs should take into account the role of packing beads in charge trapping as a capacitor.  
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  Language Wos 000626451000001 Publication Date 2021-02-23  
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  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited Open Access Not_Open_Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
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Author Bal, K.M.; Neyts, E.C. pdf  url
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  Title Quantifying the impact of vibrational nonequilibrium in plasma catalysis: insights from a molecular dynamics model of dissociative chemisorption Type A1 Journal Article;plasma catalysis
  Year 2021 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 54 Issue 39 Pages 394004  
  Keywords A1 Journal Article;plasma catalysis; vibrational nonequilibrium; dissociative chemisorption; free energy barriers; Plasma, laser ablation and surface modeling Antwerp (PLASMANT) ;  
  Abstract The rate, selectivity and efficiency of plasma-based conversion processes is strongly affected by nonequilibrium phenomena. High concentrations of vibrationally excited molecules are such a plasma-induced effect. It is frequently assumed that vibrationally excited molecules are important in plasma catalysis because their presence lowers the apparent activation energy of dissociative chemisorption reactions and thus increases the conversion rate. A detailed atomic-level understanding of vibrationally stimulated catalytic reactions in the context of plasma catalysis is however lacking. Here, we couple a recently developed statistical model of a plasma-induced vibrational nonequilibrium to molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling methods, and machine learning techniques. We quantify the impact of a vibrational nonequilibrium on the dissociative chemisorption barrier of H2 and CH4 on nickel catalysts over a wide range of vibrational temperatures. We investigate the effect of surface structure and compare the role of different vibrational modes of methane in the dissociation process. For low vibrational temperatures, very high vibrational efficacies are found, and energy in bend vibrations appears to dominate the dissociation of methane. The relative impact of vibrational nonequilibrium is much higher on terrace sites than on surface steps. We then show how our simulations can help to interpret recent experimental results, and suggest new paths to a better understanding of plasma catalysis.  
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  Impact Factor 2.588 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, 12ZI420N ; K M B was funded as a junior postdoctoral fellow of the FWO (Research Foundation—Flanders), Grant 12ZI420N. The computational resources and services used in this work were provided by the HPC core facility CalcUA of the Universiteit Antwerpen, and VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Center), funded by the FWO and the Flemish Government. HLDA calculations were performed with a script provided by G Piccini. Approved Most recent IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:179830 Serial 6808  
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Author Adamovich, I.; Agarwal, S.; Ahedo, E.; Alves, L.L.; Baalrud, S.; Babaeva, N.; Bogaerts, A.; Bourdon, A.; Bruggeman, P.J.; Canal, C.; Choi, E.H.; Coulombe, S.; Donkó, Z.; Graves, D.B.; Hamaguchi, S.; Hegemann, D.; Hori, M.; Kim, H.-h; Kroesen, G.M.W.; Kushner, M.J.; Laricchiuta, A.; Li, X.; Magin, T.E.; Mededovic Thagard, S.; Miller, V.; Murphy, A.B.; Oehrlein, G.S.; Puac, N.; Sankaran, R.M.; Samukawa, S.; Shiratani, M.; Šimek, M.; Tarasenko, N.; Terashima, K.; Thomas Jr, E.; Trieschmann, J.; Tsikata, S.; Turner, M.M.; van der Walt, I.J.; van de Sanden, M.C.M.; von Woedtke, T. pdf  url
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  Title The 2022 Plasma Roadmap: low temperature plasma science and technology Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2022 Publication Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics Abbreviated Journal J Phys D Appl Phys  
  Volume 55 Issue 37 Pages 373001  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract The 2022 Roadmap is the next update in the series of Plasma Roadmaps published by<italic>Journal of Physics</italic>D with the intent to identify important outstanding challenges in the field of low-temperature plasma (LTP) physics and technology. The format of the Roadmap is the same as the previous Roadmaps representing the visions of 41 leading experts representing 21 countries and five continents in the various sub-fields of LTP science and technology. In recognition of the evolution in the field, several new topics have been introduced or given more prominence. These new topics and emphasis highlight increased interests in plasma-enabled additive manufacturing, soft materials, electrification of chemical conversions, plasma propulsion, extreme plasma regimes, plasmas in hypersonics, data-driven plasma science and technology and the contribution of LTP to combat COVID-19. In the last few decades, LTP science and technology has made a tremendously positive impact on our society. It is our hope that this roadmap will help continue this excellent track record over the next 5–10 years.  
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  Language Wos 000821410400001 Publication Date 2022-09-15  
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  ISSN (down) 0022-3727 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 3.4 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 15H05736 ; FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, UIDB/50010/2020 ; Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 20-02-00320 ; Lam Research Corporation; National Office for Research, Development, and Innovation of Hungary, K-134462 ; Czech Science Foundation, GA 18-04676S ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 20H00142 ; MESTD of Republic of Serbia, 451-03-68/2021-14/200024 ; NASA; Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research; U.S. National Science Foundation, CBET 1703439 ; U.S. Department of Energy, DE-SC-0001234 ; Grantová Agentura České Republiky, GA 18-04676S ; Army Research Office, W911NF-20-1-0105 ; National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51825702 ; European Research Council, Starting Grant #259354 ; European Space Agency, GSTP ; U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, FA9550-17-1-0370 ; Safran Aircraft Engines, POSEIDON ; Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR-16-CHIN-003–01 ; H2020 European Research Council, ERC Synergy Grant 810182 SCOPE ; JST CREST, JPMJCR19R3 ; Federal German Ministry of Education and Research, 03Z22DN11 ; National Research Foundation of Korea, 2016K1A4A3914113 ; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, 200021_169180 ; Departament d’Innovació, Universitats i Empresa, Generalitat de Catalunya, SGR2017-1165 ; Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España, PID2019-103892RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 138690629 – TRR 87 ; Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, 18K18753 ; Approved Most recent IF: 3.4  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:189203 Serial 7075  
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Author Verswyvel, H.; Deben, C.; Wouters, A.; Lardon, F.; Bogaerts, A.; Smits, E.; Lin, A. pdf  url
doi  openurl
  Title Phototoxicity and cell passage affect intracellular reactive oxygen species levels and sensitivity towards non-thermal plasma treatment in fluorescently-labeled cancer cells Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2023 Publication Journal of physics: D: applied physics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 56 Issue 29 Pages 294001  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT); Center for Oncological Research (CORE)  
  Abstract Live-cell imaging with fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool, especially in cancer research, widely-used for capturing dynamic cellular processes over time. However, light-induced toxicity (phototoxicity) can be incurred from this method, via disruption of intracellular redox balance and an overload of reactive oxygen species (ROS). This can introduce confounding effects in an experiment, especially in the context of evaluating and screening novel therapies. Here, we aimed to unravel whether phototoxicity can impact cellular homeostasis and response to non-thermal plasma (NTP), a therapeutic strategy which specifically targets the intracellular redox balance. We demonstrate that cells incorporated with a fluorescent reporter for live-cell imaging have increased sensitivity to NTP, when exposed to ambient light or fluorescence excitation, likely through altered proliferation rates and baseline intracellular ROS levels. These changes became even more pronounced the longer the cells stayed in culture. Therefore, our results have important implications for research implementing this analysis technique and are particularly important for designing experiments and evaluating redox-based therapies like NTP.  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Wos 000978180500001 Publication Date 2023-07-20  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  ISSN (down) 0022-3727 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 3.4 Times cited Open Access OpenAccess  
  Notes This work was partially funded by the Research Foundation— Flanders (FWO) and supported by the following Grants: 1S67621N (H V), 12S9221N (A L), and G044420N (A B and A L). We would also like to thank several patrons, as part of this research was funded by donations from different donors, including Dedert Schilde vzw, Mr Willy Floren, and the Vereycken family. Approved Most recent IF: 3.4; 2023 IF: 2.588  
  Call Number PLASMANT @ plasmant @c:irua:196441 Serial 7381  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. doi  openurl
  Title Accurate ab initio quartic force fields and thermochemistry of FNO and CINO Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1994 Publication The journal of physical chemistry Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 98 Issue 44 Pages 11394-11400  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract The quartic force fields of FNO and CINO have been computed at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ level. Using an ''augmented'' basis set dramatically improves results for FNO but has no significant effect for CINO. The best computed force field for FNO yields harmonic frequencies and fundamentals in excellent agreement with experiment. Overall, the force fields proposed in the present work are probably the most reliable ones ever published for these molecules. Total atomization energies have been computed using basis sets of spdfg quality: our best estimates are Sigma D-0 = 208.5 +/- 1 and 185.4 +/- 1 kcal/mol for FN0 and CINO, respectively. The computed value for FNO suggests a problem with the established experimental heat of formation. Thermodynamic tables in JANAF style at 100-2000 K are presented for both FNO and CINO.  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Washington, D.C. Editor  
  Language Wos A1994PP89400022 Publication Date 2005-03-15  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-3654;1541-5740; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor Times cited 21 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:12310 Serial 44  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. doi  openurl
  Title The impact of quantum chemical methods on the interpretation of molecular spectra of carbon clusters (review article) Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1993 Publication Journal of molecular structure Abbreviated Journal J Mol Struct  
  Volume 294 Issue Pages 21-24  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Amsterdam Editor  
  Language Wos A1993KU48000006 Publication Date 2002-07-25  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2860; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.602 Times cited 21 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:6148 Serial 1560  
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Author Bal, K.M.; Cautereels, J.; Blockhuys, F. pdf  url
doi  openurl
  Title Structures and spectroscopic properties of sulfur-nitrogen-pnictogen chains : R2P-N=S=N-PR2 and R2P-N=S=N-AsR2 Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2017 Publication Journal of molecular structure Abbreviated Journal J Mol Struct  
  Volume 1132 Issue Pages 102-108  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract The conformational and configurational preferences of Me2PNSNPMe2 (3) and Me2PNSNAsMe2 (4) have been identified using quantum chemical calculations at the DFT/B3LYP/6-311+G* level of theory. An approach in which energetic, structural (geometries and bond orders), electronic (analysis of the electron density) and spectroscopic properties are combined leads to the conclusion that these sulfur-nitrogen-pnictogen chains share many of the properties of their chalcogen-nitrogen analogues but that the through-space intramolecular interactions favouring the Z,Z configuration are even weaker than in these latter compounds. The results of this analysis also lead to an unambiguous assignment of the variable-temperature 31P and 15N NMR spectra of these compounds and their structures both in solution and in the solid state.  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Amsterdam Editor  
  Language Wos 000393254400015 Publication Date 2016-08-07  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2860 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record  
  Impact Factor 1.753 Times cited Open Access Not_Open_Access: Available from 03.10.2019  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 1.753  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:145533 Serial 4726  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. doi  openurl
  Title Accurate ab initio quartic force fields for the sulfur compounds H2S, CS2, OCS and CS Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1995 Publication Journal of molecular spectroscopy Abbreviated Journal J Mol Spectrosc  
  Volume 169 Issue Pages 445-457  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1995QD98400014 Publication Date 2002-09-18  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2852; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.482 Times cited 37 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:12277 Serial 45  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; Francois; Gijbels, R. doi  openurl
  Title The anharmonic-force field of thioformaldehyde, h2cs, by ab-initio methods Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1994 Publication Journal of molecular spectroscopy Abbreviated Journal J Mol Spectrosc  
  Volume 168 Issue 2 Pages 363-373  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract The quartic force field of thioformaldehyde has been calculated ab initio using large basis sets and augmented coupled cluster methods. Calculated fundamentals are in excellent agreement with experiment, as is the most important Coriolis coupling constant. Computed values for the anharmonicity, rovibrational coupling, and centrifugal distortion constants of the four isotopomers (H2CS)-S-32, (H2CS)-S-34, (HDCS)-S-32, and (D2CS)-S-32 have been reported. Predictions have been made for all vibrational transitions from the ground state to excited states with at most two quanta for these isotopomers, both using second-order perturbation theory corrected for Darling-Dennison resonance and using vibrational SCF-CI calculations. For (D2CS)-S-32, perturbation theory performs quite well; for the other isotopomers, performance is poorer for states involving excitation of the out-of-plane bend and, for the (H2CS)-S-32 and (H2CS)-S-34 isotopomers, also for the antisymmetric bend that is in severe Coriolis resonance with it. A possible explanation has been suggested. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1994PU60800015 Publication Date 2002-10-07  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2852; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.482 Times cited 18 Open Access  
  Notes Approved PHYSICS, APPLIED 47/145 Q2 #  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:95414 Serial 3570  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title The anharmonic force field of thioformaldehyde, H2CS Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1994 Publication Journal of molecular spectroscopy Abbreviated Journal J Mol Spectrosc  
  Volume 168 Issue Pages 363-373  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1994PU60800015 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2852 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.482 Times cited 18 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:10259 Serial 119  
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Author Oleshko, V.; Gijbels, R.; Jacob, W. doi  openurl
  Title Energy-filtering TEM and electron energy-loss spectroscopy of double structure tabular microcrystals of silver halide emulsions Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1996 Publication Journal of microscopy Abbreviated Journal J Microsc-Oxford  
  Volume 183 Issue 1 Pages 27-38  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Oxford Editor  
  Language Wos A1996UZ02800005 Publication Date 2003-11-02  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2720;1365-2818; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.331 Times cited 8 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:16248 Serial 1039  
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Author Gregory, C.; Gijbels, R.; Jacob, W.; Geuens, I.; van Roost, C.; de Keyzer, R. openurl 
  Title Evaluation of characterization methods for thin sections of silver halide microcrystals by analytical electron microscopy Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1997 Publication Journal of microscopy Abbreviated Journal J Microsc-Oxford  
  Volume 188 Issue Pages 79-87  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Oxford Editor  
  Language Wos A1997YF51000009 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2720 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.692 Times cited 6 Open Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 1.692; 1997 IF: 1.083  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:20461 Serial 1086  
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Author Mehta, A.N.; Zhang, H.; Dabral, A.; Richard, O.; Favia, P.; Bender, H.; Delabie, A.; Caymax, M.; Houssa, M.; Pourtois, G.; Vandervorst, W. pdf  doi
openurl 
  Title Structural characterization of SnS crystals formed by chemical vapour deposition Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2017 Publication Journal of microscopy T2 – 20th International Conference on Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials, (MSM), APR 09-13, 2017, Univ Oxford, Univ Oxford, Oxford, ENGLAND Abbreviated Journal J Microsc-Oxford  
  Volume 268 Issue 3 Pages 276-287  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract <script type='text/javascript'>document.write(unpmarked('The crystal and defect structure of SnS crystals grown using chemical vapour deposition for application in electronic devices are investigated. The structural analysis shows the presence of two distinct crystal morphologies, that is thin flakes with lateral sizes up to 50 m and nanometer scale thickness, and much thicker but smaller crystallites. Both show similar Raman response associated with SnS. The structural analysis with transmission electron microscopy shows that the flakes are single crystals of -SnS with [010] normal to the substrate. Parallel with the surface of the flakes, lamellae with varying thickness of a new SnS phase are observed. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), first-principles simulations (DFT) and nanobeam diffraction (NBD) techniques are employed to characterise this phase in detail. DFT results suggest that the phase is a strain stabilised \u0027 one grown epitaxially on the -SnS crystals. TEM analysis shows that the crystallites are also -SnS with generally the [010] direction orthogonal to the substrate. Contrary to the flakes the crystallites consist of two to four grains which are tilted up to 15 degrees relative to the substrate. The various grain boundary structures and twin relations are discussed. Under high-dose electron irradiation, the SnS structure is reduced and -Sn formed. It is shown that this damage only occurs for SnS in direct contact with SiO2. Lay description SnS is a p-type semiconductor, which has attracted significant interest for electronic devices due to its unique properties, low-toxicity and abundance of Sn in nature. Although in the past it has been most extensively studied as the absorber material in solar cells, it has recently garnered interest for application as a p-type two-dimensional semiconductor in nanoelectronic devices due to its anisotropic layered structure similar to the better known phosphorene. Tin sulphide can take the form of several phases and the electronic properties of the material depend strongly on its crystal structure. It is therefore crucial to study the crystal structure of the material in order to predict the electronic properties and gain insight into the growth mechanism. In this work, SnS crystals deposited using a chemical vapour deposition technique are investigated extensively for their crystal and defect structure using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and related techniques. We find the presence of two distinct crystal morphologies, that is thin flakes with lateral sizes up to 50 m and nm scale thickness, and much thicker but smaller crystallites. The flakes are single crystals of -SnS and contain lamellae with varying thickness of a different phase which appear to be -SnS at first glance. High-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy is used to characterise these lamellae where the annular bright field (ABF) mode better reveals the position of the sulphur columns. The sulphur columns in the lamellae are found to be shifted relative to the -SnS structure which indicates the formation of a new phase which is a distorted version of the phase which we tentatively refer to as \u0027-SnS. Simulations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used to model the interface and a similar shift of sulphur columns in the -SnS layer is observed which takes place as a result of strong interaction at the interface between the two phases resulting in strain transfer. Nanobeam electron diffraction (NBD) is used to map the lattice mismatch in the thickness of the flakes which reveals good in-plane matching and some expansion out-of-plane in the lamellae. Contrary to the flakes the crystallites are made solely of -SnS and consist of two to four grains which are tilted up to 15 degrees relative to the substrate. The various grain boundary structures and twin relations are discussed. At high electron doses, SnS is reduced to -Sn, however the damage occurs only for SnS in direct contact with SiO2.'));  
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  Publisher Wiley Place of Publication Hoboken Editor  
  Language Wos 000415900300009 Publication Date 2017-09-28  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-2720 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.692 Times cited 2 Open Access Not_Open_Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 1.692  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:147692 Serial 4898  
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Author Baguer, N.; Georgieva, V.; Calderin, L.; Todorov, I.T.; van Gils, S.; Bogaerts, A. doi  openurl
  Title Study of the nucleation and growth of TiO2 and ZnO thin films by means of molecular dynamics simulations Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2009 Publication Journal of crystal growth Abbreviated Journal J Cryst Growth  
  Volume 311 Issue 16 Pages 4034-4043  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract The nucleation and growth of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films on Fe2O3 (hematite), Al2O3 (á-alumina) and SiO2 (á-quartz) are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The results show the formation of a strong interface region between the substrate and the film in the six systems studied here. A combination of polycrystalline and amorphous phases are observed in the TiO2 films grown on the three substrates. ZnO deposition on the Fe2O3 and Al2O3 crystals yields a monocrystalline film growth. The ZnO film deposited on the SiO2 crystal exhibits less crystallinity. The simulation results are compared with experimental results available in the literature.  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Amsterdam Editor  
  Language Wos 000269580100012 Publication Date 2009-06-24  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-0248; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.751 Times cited 23 Open Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 1.751; 2009 IF: 1.534  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:77453 Serial 3338  
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Author Volkov, V.V.; van Landuyt, J.; Marushkin, K.M.; Gijbels, R.; Férauge, C.; Vasilyev, M.G.; Shelyakin, A.A.; Sokolovsky, A.A. openurl 
  Title Characterization of LPE grown InGaAsP/InP heterostructures: IR-LED at 1.66 μm used for the remote monitoring of methane gas Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1997 Publication Journal of crystal growth Abbreviated Journal J Cryst Growth  
  Volume 173 Issue Pages 285-296  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Electron microscopy for materials research (EMAT); Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Amsterdam Editor  
  Language Wos A1997XC98100008 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0022-0248 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 1.751 Times cited 4 Open Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 1.751; 1997 IF: 1.259  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:20459 Serial 324  
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Author Bal, K.M.; Neyts, E.C. url  doi
openurl 
  Title On the time scale associated with Monte Carlo simulations Type A1 Journal article
  Year 2014 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 141 Issue 20 Pages 204104  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract Uniform-acceptance force-bias Monte Carlo (fbMC) methods have been shown to be a powerful technique to access longer timescales in atomistic simulations allowing, for example, phase transitions and growth. Recently, a new fbMC method, the time-stamped force-bias Monte Carlo (tfMC) method, was derived with inclusion of an estimated effective timescale; this timescale, however, does not seem able to explain some of the successes the method. In this contribution, we therefore explicitly quantify the effective timescale tfMC is able to access for a variety of systems, namely a simple single-particle, one-dimensional model system, the Lennard-Jones liquid, an adatom on the Cu(100) surface, a silicon crystal with point defects and a highly defected graphene sheet, in order to gain new insights into the mechanisms by which tfMC operates. It is found that considerable boosts, up to three orders of magnitude compared to molecular dynamics, can be achieved for solid state systems by lowering of the apparent activation barrier of occurring processes, while not requiring any system-specific input or modifications of the method. We furthermore address the pitfalls of using the method as a replacement or complement of molecular dynamics simulations, its ability to explicitly describe correct dynamics and reaction mechanisms, and the association of timescales to MC simulations in general.  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos 000345641400005 Publication Date 2014-11-26  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606;1089-7690; ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.965 Times cited 26 Open Access  
  Notes Approved Most recent IF: 2.965; 2014 IF: 2.952  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:120667 Serial 2459  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title Ab initio study of the structure, infrared spectra and heat of formation of C4 Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1991 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 94 Issue Pages 3753-3761  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1991FA77800052 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.952 Times cited 62 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:715 Serial 38  
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Author Taylor, P.R.; Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title An ab initio study of the C3+ cation using multireference methods Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1991 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 95 Issue Pages 6530-6534  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
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  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606 ISBN Additional Links UA library record  
  Impact Factor 2.952 Times cited Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:720 Serial 39  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title First principles computation of thermo-chemical properties beyond the harmonic approximation: 1: method and application to the water molecule and its isotopomers Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1992 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 96 Issue 10 Pages 7633-7645  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1992HU55700047 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.952 Times cited 59 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:4195 Serial 1206  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title First principles computation of thermo-chemical properties beyond the harmonic approximation: 2: application to the amino radical and its isotopomers Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1992 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 97 Issue 5 Pages 3530-3536  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1992JL37200072 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.952 Times cited 22 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:4197 Serial 1207  
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Author Martin, J.M.L.; François, J.P.; Gijbels, R. openurl 
  Title On the effect of centrifugal stretching on the rotational partition function of an asymmetric top Type A1 Journal article
  Year 1991 Publication The journal of chemical physics Abbreviated Journal J Chem Phys  
  Volume 95 Issue Pages 8374-8389  
  Keywords A1 Journal article; Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine – Antwerp (PLASMANT)  
  Abstract  
  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Editor  
  Language Wos A1991GR66500062 Publication Date 0000-00-00  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN (down) 0021-9606 ISBN Additional Links UA library record; WoS full record; WoS citing articles  
  Impact Factor 2.952 Times cited 12 Open Access  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number UA @ lucian @ c:irua:716 Serial 2434  
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