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In their two-part tutorial review published in Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Svetlana Starikovskaia, Victor Lafaurie, Jean-Baptiste Perrin-Terrin (EM2C), and Christophe Laux (EM2C) present a comprehensive overview of plasma-assisted combustion (PAC). The review is explicitly structured to guide readers from fundamental combustion and plasma physics to the mechanisms and practical applications relevant to modern energy and propulsion systems...

Iodine is an emerging alternative propellant for high-performance electric propulsion systems and has also been proposed as a novel feed gas for the dry etching of III-V semiconductor materials. An international team, including several researchers from the LPP (Laboratory of Plasma Physics), has just published a review article on iodine plasmas, featuring a detailed database for various properties, collision cross-sections and iodine-surface...

By allowing plasmas to exchange their magnetic connectivity, the process of magnetic reconnection enables the sudden release of magnetic energy in the form of accelerated particles and fast, heated flows. For more than half a century, reconnection has been suspected to play a central role in scenarios explaining intense energetic events throughout the universe, from the solar corona to stellar coronae and accretion disks, and from planetary...