B11: Rational tuning of plasma and liquid chemistry for biocatalysis

Principal Investigators: J. Bandow, J. Golda, A. Gibson

Team

Bandow, Julia (Principal Investigator)

Gibson, Andrew (Principal Investigator)

Golda, Judith (Principal Investigator)

Klopsch, Sabrina (PhD)

Schüttler, Steffen (PhD)

Jeß, Emanuel (Bachelor)

Kai, Maike (Master)

Schöne, Anna Lena (PhD)

Boeddinghaus, Lara (Bachelor)

Description

Plasma-driven biocatalysis seeks to use plasma-produced reactive species, such as hydrogen peroxide, as reactants for the enzymatic conversion of substrates into valuable products. A key to achieving industrial use of this approach is to produce reactants in sufficient amounts and with high energy efficiency. The aim of this project is to develop a rational scheme for tuning the plasma-biocatalysis system by combining expertise and insight from experimental plasma and liquid diagnostics, numerical plasma and liquid chemistry simulations and biotechnology. In addition to characterising rates and mechanisms of hydrogen peroxide generation, the formation of unwanted plasma species that are toxic to enzymes will be monitored under different plasma operating conditions. On the basis of simulation and experiment, new strategies will be developed to increase the biocatalytic yield.

Publications

• State enhanced actinometry in the COST microplasma jet
  D. Steuer, H. van Impel, A. R. Gibson, V. Schulz-von der Gathen, M. Böke, J. Golda
  Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 31 (2022), 10LT01

Thesis

• Emanuel Jeß, Bachelor thesis - 03/2021
  Diagnostics of plasma-produced hydrogen peroxide in liquids
• Steffen Schüttler, PhD thesis - ongoing
  Energy transport in atmospheric pressure plasmas interacting with fluids
• Maike Kai, Master thesis - ongoing
  Diagnostics of plasma chemistry in atmospheric pressure plasmas operated in humid feed gas
• Océane Michels, Bachelor thesis - 10/2022
  Undisclosed title
• Lara Boeddinghaus, Bachelor thesis - 03/2023
  Diagnostic of excitation dynamics in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet using phase resolved optical emission spectroscopy
• Anna Lena Schöne, PhD thesis - ongoing
  Simulation of plasma and liquid chemistry for applications in biocatalysis

Further reading