Dear friends and colleagues,

I am honoured to announce this Special Issue of Applied Sciences "Nitrogen Fixation by Plasma: Towards Electrification of Chemical Industry".

The natural N2 fixation is negligible compared to te ever-growing global demand. The chemical production of NH3 alone reaches hundreds of millions of tonnes, predominantly by the Haber-Bosch process, which relies heavily on fossil-derived energy and massively contributes to the total global CO2 emissions. Naturally, new, benign routes of N2 fixation are under investigation. Among these are the processes involving plasma.

The vast interest in plasma-assisted and plasma-driven methods is due to the unique properties of plasmas, such as generation of excited or atomic species, facilitating N2 fixation. Plasmas also comply with the desired electrification of chemical industry, leading towards a more sustainable future.

We cordially invite authors to contribute their works, which we expect to be focussed on all aspects of N2 fixation by plasma, including experimental and computational research in areas of plasma chemistry, physics, catalysis, diagnostics, etc.

Please follow the link for details!

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/electrification_of_chemical_industry