Idaho National Labs is Using Plasma to Mass Produce Nanoparticles and better Armor and Trying to Use Plasma to More Efficiently Make Gas and Diesel
Mike Wall wrote on research at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to harness plasma, the fourth state of matter. Peter Kong, technical lead for plasma processing at INL, has built a career of putting plasma to work. He’s using it to mass-produce nanoparticles, a project that in August received $1 million in federal stimulus funding. He’s …