Nowadays plasma impacts many areas in life sciences and environmental applications including medicine, biology, agriculture, environmental remediation and so on, which were regarded as out of field in plasma engineering a few decades ago. This emerging field will contribute to improve quality of human life, and can be designated as “Plasma Human Sciences”, which includes inactivation of bacteria and viruses for protection of diseases and for improving environment, wound disinfection and healing, coagulation of blood to stop bleeding, treatment of cancers, activation of cell functions including proliferation and growth enhancement of plants and fishes. In these plasma processings, plasma interacts with liquids to produce and/or inject various reactive radicals, and also enable to impose high electric field, intense shockwaves and local high temperature, and pulsed ultraviolet ray. These interactions can be used for material processing, too, such as surface modification, fabrication of organic and inorganic materials including nano-dots and advanced biomaterials.

This emerging new field of plasma for human life has a potential to be an interdisciplinary areas to create novel large-scale industries. In order to assure and enhance these developments and innovations, the key fundamental issue is to clarify the mechanisms of the plasma/liquid system including their interactions with biological or environmental targets. It is also important to share the ideas of potential applications.

This symposium focuses on discussing and transmitting broad range of innovative technologies for plasma processing via liquid that could potentially contribute for advancement of plasma applications for life sciences and environmental applications.