{"id":92758,"date":"2019-06-27T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/lightning-bolt-underwater"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:22:59","slug":"lightning-bolt-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/lightning-bolt-underwater","title":{"rendered":"Lightning bolt underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-bolt-underwater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrochemical cells help recycle CO<sub>2<\/sub>. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at the Collaborative Research Centre 1316 \u201cTransient atmospheric plasmas: from plasmas to liquids to solids\u201d at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum (RUB) are exploring how they might be regenerated at the push of a button using extreme plasmas in water. In a first, they deployed optical spectroscopy and modelling to analyse such underwater plasmas in detail, which exist only for a few nanoseconds, and to theoretically describe the conditions during plasma ignition. They published their report in the journal <i>Plasma Sources Science and Technology<\/i> on 4 June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Plasmas are ionised gases: they are formed when a gas is energised that then contains free electrons. In nature, plasmas occur inside stars or take the shape of polar lights on Earth. In engineering, plasmas are utilised for example to generate light in fluorescent lamps, or to manufacture new materials in the field of microelectronics. \u201cTypically, plasmas are generated in the gas phase, for example in the air or in noble gases,\u201d explains Katharina Grosse from the Institute for Experimental Physics II at RUB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrochemical cells help recycle CO2. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at the Collaborative Research Centre 1316 \u201cTransient atmospheric plasmas: from plasmas to liquids to solids\u201d at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum (RUB) are exploring how they might be regenerated at the push of a button using extreme plasmas in water. In a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}