Publications

Mikhail Vasilev, Jaymes Suiter, Douglas Bohl, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Caffeine Degradation in a Plasma-liquid Reactor with the Lateral Liquid Flow: Elucidating the Effects of Mass Transport on Contaminant Removal”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 473, pp. 144833, 2023.   

Jens Blotevogel, Selma Mededovic Thagard, and Shaily Mahendra, “Scaling up Water Treatment Technologies for PFAS Destruction: Current Status and Potential for Fit-for-Purpose Application”, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 41, pp. 100944, 2023.

Rui Li, Osakpolo F. Isowamwen, Katherine Ross, Thomas M. Holsen, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “PFAS-CTAB complexation and its role on the removal of PFAS from a lab-prepared water and a reverse osmosis reject water using a plasma reactor”, Environmental Science and Technology, 57, pp. 12901–12910, 2023.          

Mikhail Vasilev, Jaymes Suiter, Douglas Bohl, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Caffeine Degradation in a Plasma-liquid Reactor with the Lateral Liquid Flow: Elucidating the Effects of Mass Transport on Contaminant Removal“, Chemical Engineering Journal, 473, pp. 144833, 2023.         

Foulke Jennifer Ganzallo, Xudong Su, Shurik Yatom, Mikhail Vasilev and Selma Mededovic Thagard,” Characterization and Treatment Performance of an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Jet-Operated Spinning Disc Reactor for the Treatment of Rhodamine B Dye” Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, in press, 2023. Special Issue on Dielectric-Barrier Discharges and their Applications, in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of Ulrich Kogelschatz’s Work.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Unlocking the Potential: Scaling Up of Advanced Oxidation Technologies”, Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 25, pp. 1761, 2023. EDITORIAL

Gaurav Nayak, Jianan Wang, Rui Li, Diana Aranzales, Selma Mededovic Thagard and Peter Bruggeman, “Non-OH-driven Liquid Phase Chemistry in Water Micro-droplets”, Plasma Processes and Polymers, 2023.

Chase Nau-Hix, Thomas M. Holsen, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Optimization of a gas-liquid plasma reactor for water treatment applications: design guidelines and electrical circuit considerations”, Plasma Processes and Polymers, e2200036, 2022. COVER

Mikhail Vasilev, Patrick Conlon, Douglas Bohl, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, ”The effect of discharge frequency of a gas-liquid plasma reactor on bulk liquid transport and removal of organic contaminants”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 1-25, 2022.

Igor Adamovich et al. (total of 41 contributors including S. Mededovic Thagard). S. Mededovic Thagard and Hyun-Ha Kim: Plasma Pollution Control, in “The 2022 Plasma Roadmap: Low Temperature Plasma Science and Technology”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55, 373001, 2022.

Poonam R. Kulkarni, Diana Aranzales, Hassan Javed, Thomas Holsen, Nicholas W. Johnson, Stephen D. Richardson, Selma Mededovic Thagard, and Charles J. Newell, “Process to Separate Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Water Using Colloidal Gas Aphrons (CGAs)”, Remediation, XXXX, 2022.

Mounir Laroussi (total of 20 contributors including S. Mededovic Thagard), “Low Temperature Plasma for Biology, Hygiene, and Medicine: Perspective and Roadmap” IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, XXXX, 2021.

Rui Li, David Speed, Dinusha Siriwardena, Sujan Fernando, Selma Mededovic Thagard, and Thomas M. Holsen, “Comparison of Hydrogen Peroxide-based Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Treatment of Azole-Containing Industrial Wastewater”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 425, pp. 131785,2021.

Rui Li, Shefa Alomari, Timur Islamoglu, Omar K. Farha, Sujan Fernando, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Thomas M. Holsen, and Mario Wriedt, “Systematic study on the removal of poly- and perfluorinated compounds from contaminated groundwater using metal-organic frameworks”, Environmental Science and Technology, 55 (22), pp. 15162-15171, 2021.

Chase Nau-Hix, Thomas M. Holsen, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Influence of solution electrical conductivity and ionic composition on the performance of a gas–liquid pulsed spark discharge reactor for water treatment”, Journal of Applied Physics 130 (12), pp. 123301, 2021.

Rui Li, Dinusha Siriwardena, David Speed, Sujan Fernando, Thomas M. Holsen and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Treatment of Azole-Containing Industrial Wastewater by the Fenton Process”, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 60 (27), pp. 9716-9728,2021.

Rui Li, Shefa Alomari, Robert Stanton, Megan C. Wasson, Timur Islamoglu, Omar K. Farha, Thomas M. Holsen, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Dhara J. Trivedi, and Mario Wriedt, “Efficient Removal of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water with Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks.” Chemistry of Materials, 33 (9), pp. 3276-3285, 2021.

Chase Nau-Hix, Nicholas Multari, Raj Kamal Singh, Stephen Richardson, Poonam Kulkarni, Richard Hunter Anderson, Thomas M. Holsen, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Field Demonstration of a Pilot-Scale Plasma Reactor for the Rapid Removal of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Groundwater”, ACS ES&T Water, 1 (3), pp. 680-687, 2021.

Raj Kamal Singh, Elizabeth Brown, Selma Mededovic Thagard and Thomas Holsen, “Treatment of PFAS-containing landfill leachate using an enhanced contact plasma reactor”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 48, pp. 124452, 2021.

Raj Kamal Singh, Nicholas Multari, Chase Nau-Hix, Steven Woodard, Michael Nickelsen, Selma Mededovic Thagard and Thomas M. Holsen, “Removal of Poly-and Per-Fluorinated Compounds from Ion Exchange Regenerant Still Bottom Samples in a Plasma Reactor”, Environmental Science & Technology, 54 (21), pp. 13973, 2020.

Raj Kamal Singh, Nicholas Multari, Chase Nau-Hix, Richard H. Anderson, Stephen D. Richardson, Thomas M. Holsen and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Rapid removal of poly- and perfluorinated compounds from investigation-derived waste (IDW) in a pilot-scale plasma reactor”, Environmental Science & Technology, 53 (19), pp. 11375, 2019.

Blossom N. Nzeribe, Michelle Crimi, Selma Mededovic Thagard, and Thomas M. Holsen, “Physico-chemical Processes for the Treatment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): A review”, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 49 (10), pp. 866-915, 2019.

Xudong Su, Meng Feng, Shane Rogers, Thomas M. Holsen and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “The role of high voltage electrode material in the inactivation of E. coli by direct-in-liquid electrical discharge plasma”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Invited Paper, 39, pp. 577-596, 2019.

Raj Kamal Singh, Sujan Fernando, Sadjad Fakouri Baygi, Nicholas Multari, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Thomas M. Holsen, “Breakdown products from perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) degradation in a plasma-based water treatment process”, Environmental Science & Technology, 53 (5), pp. 2731-2738, 2019.

Pooya Estifaee, Xudong Su, Sudheer Kumar Yannam, Shane Rogers and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Mechanism of E. coli Inactivation by Direct-in-liquid Electrical Discharge Plasma in Low Conductivity Solutions”, Scientific Reports,9, 2326, 2019.

Selma Mededovic Thagard and Akira Mizuno, Special issue on environmental applications of thermal and non-thermal plasmas, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 52 (2), pp. 020301, 2018.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Gunnar Stratton, Mikhail Vasilev, Patrick Conlon and Douglas Bohl, “An experimental investigation of the liquid flow induced by a pulsed electrical discharge plasma”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Special Issue ISPC23, 38, pp.719-741, 2018.

Joshua Franclemont, Rui Li, Raj Kamal Singh, Xiangru Fan, Thomas M. Holsen and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Accompanying Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Liquid Methanol”,Plasma Processes and Polymers, Special Issue, Plasma and Liquids, 15 (6), pp.1800019, 2018.

Abraham Dirnberger, Scott D. Kovaleski, Peter Norgard, Joshua Franclemont, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “In-Liquid Streamer Characterization and Fractal Analysis”, IEEE Transcations on Plasma Science, 46 (7), pp. 2550-2557, 2018.

Sudheer Kumar Yannam, Pooya Estifaee, Shane Rogers, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Application of high voltage electrical discharge plasma for the inactivation of Escherichia coli ATCC 700891 in commercial tangerine juice”, LWT-Food Science and Technology, 90, pp. 180-185, 2018.

Igor Adamovich et al. (total of 39 contributors including S. Mededovic Thagard). Akira Mizuno and S. Mededovic Thagard: Environmental Applications of Non-Thermal Plasma, in“The 2017 Plasma Roadmap: Low Temperature Plasma Science and Technology”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50, pp. 323001, 2017.

Gunnar Stratton, Fei Dai, Christopher Bellona, Thomas Holsen, Eric Dickenson and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Plasma-based water treatment: Efficient transformation of perfluoroalkyl substances in prepared solutions and contaminated groundwater”, Environmental Science & Technology, 51, pp. 1643–1648, 2017.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Gunnar Stratton,Christopher Bellona, Fei Dai, Thomas Holsen, Douglas Bohl, Eunsu Paek, and Eric Dickenson, “Plasma-based water treatment: development of a general mechanistic model to estimate the treatability of different types of contaminants”, Special issue: emerging leaders, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50, pp. 014003, 2017. Featured on JPhys+ as a high impact paper.

Bruggeman, P.J. et al. (total of 34 contributors including S. Mededovic Thagard), “Plasma-Liquid Interactions: A Review and Roadmap”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 25, pp. 053002, 2016.

Xiangru Fan, Artem Melman, John McLaughlin, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Quantum Mechanical Approach for Determining Degradation Pathways of Phenol by Electrical Discharge Plasmas”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 37, pp.5-28, 2016.

Tomislava Vukusic, Gunnar Stratton, Zoran Herceg, Shane Rogers, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Liquid-phase Electrical Discharge Plasmas for Inactivation of Pure Culture of Bacteria Escherichia coli in Water”, Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, 38, pp. 407-413, 2016.

Fei Dai, Xiangru Fan, Gunnar Stratton,Christopher Bellona, Thomas Holsen, Bernard S. Crimmins, Xiaoyan Xia, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Experimental and Density Functional Theoretical Study of the Effects of Fenton’s Reactions on the Degradation of Bisphenol A in a High Voltage Plasma Reactor”, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 308, pp. 419-429, 2015.

Joshua Franclemont, Xiangru Fan, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Physicochemical Mechanisms of Plasma-Liquid Interactions within Plasma Channels in Liquid”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48, pp. 424004, 2015.

Gunnar Stratton,Christopher Bellona, Fei Dai, Thomas Holsen, and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Plasma-based Water Treatment: Conception and Application of a General Principle for Reactor Design”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 273, pp. 543-550, 2015.

Joshua Franclemont and Selma Mededovic Thagard,” Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Water: Can Non-volatile Compounds Diffuse into the Plasma Channel?”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 34, pp. 705-719, 2014.

Parag R. Gogate, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Jamar Blackmon,Robert Cathey, and George Chapas, “Hybrid Reactor Based on Combined Cavitation and Ozonation: From Concept to Practical Reality”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 21, pp. 590-598, 2014.

Verica Batur, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Anet Režek Jambrak, Tomislava Vukušić and Zoran Herceg, “Effect of Tribomechanical Micronisation and Activation Treatment on Textural and Thermophysical Properties of Wheat and Potato Starch Gels”, Food Technology and Biotechnology, 51, pp. 278-283, 2013.

Ravindra P. Joshi and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Streamer-like Electrical Discharges in Water: Part II. Environmental Applications”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 33, pp. 17-49, 2013.

Ravindra P. Joshi and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Streamer-like Electrical Discharges in Water: Part I. Fundamental mechanisms”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 33, pp. 1-15, 2013.

Tessora Young, Make Geng, Lin Lin and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Oxidative Degradation of Bisphenol A: A comparison between Fenton reagent, UV, UV/H2O2 and ultrasound”, Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies, 16, pp. 89-101, 2013.

Make Geng and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “The Effects of Externally Applied Pressure on the Ultrasonic Degradation of Rhodamine B”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 20, pp. 618–625, 2013.

Bruce R. Locke and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Analysis and Review of Chemical Reactions and Transport Processes in Pulsed Electrical Discharge Plasma Formed Directly in Liquid Water”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 32, pp. 875-917, 2012.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Graciela Prieto, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Identification of Gas Phase Byproducts Formed During Electrical Discharges in Liquid Fuels”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 40, pp. 2016-2111, 2012.

Kevin B. Fisher and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Transformation of Organic Solvents into Carbon-based Materials by Liquid-Phase Plasmas”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 32, pp. 919-931, 2012.

Zoran Herceg, Anet Rezek Jambrak, Vesna Lelas and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “The Effect of High Intensity Ultrasound Treatment on the Amount of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in Milk”, Food Technology and Biotechnology, 50, pp. 46-52, 2012.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Yohei Kinoshita, Hiromitsu Ikeda, Kazunori Takashima, Shinji Katsura, and Akira Mizuno, “NO3- Reduction for NOx Removal Using Wet-Type Plasma Reactor”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 46, pp. 2165-2171, 2010.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Ellen R. Fisher, Graciela Prieto, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Production of Hydrogen from Sugar by a Liquid Phase Electrical Discharge”, International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science and Technology, 4, pp. 163-168, 2010.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Electrical Discharges in Polar Organic Liquids”, Plasma Processes and Polymers, 6, pp. 741-750, 2009.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Chemistry of the Positive and Negative Electrical Discharges Formed in Liquid Water and Above a Gas-Liquid Interface”, Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 29, pp. 455-473, 2009.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Plasma Chemistry in Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Liquid”, Transaction of the Material Research Society of Japan, 34, pp. 257-262, 2009.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Adrian Mihailcioiu, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Analysis of the Byproducts in the Ammonia Production from Urea by Dielectric Barrier Discharge”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 37, pp. 444-448, 2009.

Bruce R. Locke and Selma Mededovic Thagard, “Analysis of Chemical Reactions in Gliding-Arc Reactors with Water-Spray Into Flowing Oxygen”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 37, pp. 494-501, 2009.

Selma Mededovic Thagard, Kazunori Takashima and Akira Mizuno, “Decolorization of Indigo Carmine Dye by Spark Discharge in Water”, International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science and Technology, 2, pp. 56-66, 2008.

Selma Mededovic and Bruce R. Locke, “Primary Chemical Reactions in Pulsed Electrical Discharge Channels in Water”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 40, pp. 7734-7746, 2007.

Selma Mededovic, Wright C. Finney and Bruce R. Locke, “Electrical Discharges in Mixtures of Light and Heavy Water”, Plasma Processes and Polymers, 56, pp. 76-83, 2007.

Selma Mededovic and Bruce R. Locke, “Side Chain Degradation of Atrazine by Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Water”, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 46, pp. 2702-2709, 2007.

Selma Mededovic and Bruce R. Locke, “Aqueous Phase Mineralization of s-Triazine Using a Pulsed Electrical Discharge”, International Journal of Plasma Environmental Science and Technology, 1, pp. 2-9, 2007.

Selma Mededovic and Bruce R Locke, “The Role of Platinum as the High Voltage Electrode in the Enhancement of Fenton’s Reaction in Liquid Phase Pulsed Electrical Discharge”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 72, pp. 342-350, 2006.

Selma Mededovic and Bruce R Locke, “Platinum Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide in Aqueous-Phase Pulsed Corona Electrical Discharge”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 67, pp. 149-159, 2006.