Recently, a patent for a Segmented electrode capillary discharge, non-thermal plasma apparatus and process for promoting chemical reactions (plasma reactor) was awarded to Christos Christodoulatos, Erich Kunhardt, George Korfiatis, and Richard Crowe (From bottom-right towards left). "This is an excellent example of a building block of the Techogenesis environment at Stevens," commented Dean Korfiatis. The Stevens plasma reactor is more energy efficient than conventional devices and does ...read more

The team is pioneering nanotechnology for chemical and biological sensing that can be used in environmental monitoring, manufacturing process safety, medical diagnosis, early warning of biological and chemical warfare, and homeland defense...