Investigation of gas–liquid interface in atmospheric-pressure micro plasma with solution

An atmospheric-pressure glow-discharge micro plasma in contact with liquid paraffin is stably generated by using a capacitively coupled plasma method with a mesh electrode. When characteristics of the plasma are measured in the boundary between the micro plasma (gas-phase) and liquid paraffin (liquid-phase) using optical emission spectroscopy, spectrum peaks of the emission of CH and C2 which dissociate from paraffin are observed. The result indicates that solution can feed particles to the plasma at gas–liquid interface and this plasma is accordingly expected to promote an attractive plasma process for creating materials consisting of elements in various solutions.