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THIERRY BELMONTE
Prof. Thierry Belmonte and his people have visited from March 9th-12th, 2015 the group of Prof. Czarnetzki. Prof. Belmonte (Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy, France) is investigating pulsed discharges in liquids (liquid nitrogen, water, alcohols) for generation of variety of nanoparticles. Because the jitter of the discharge ignition time and the pulse-to-pulse differences among the formed microdischarges are large, it is very difficult to obtain reliable time-resolved information about discharge performance. An ideal diagnostics for such discharges is a use of streak camera. This camera has been provided to plasma researchers in Bochum by Germen Science Foundation (DFG) in frame of Research Unit "Physics of Microplasmas" (FOR 1123) and has been now successfully applied to the discharge of Prof. Belmonte with the assistance of AvH stipend Dr. Emile Carbone and PhD student Patrick Böhm. These activities are suported by a Leverhulme Trust lnternational Network Collaboration "Materials processing by atmospheric pressure plasmas for energy applications", initiated by Dr. Davide Mariotti (University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland) and includes also Jun.-Prof. Jan Benedikt (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Dr. Vladimir Švrček (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Sci. and Techn. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan).