2019 年 33 巻 4 号 p. 374-381
A cavitation bubble plasma, which is a kind of plasma in solution, is a low-temperature plasma generated in a large number of microbubbles of a solvent component generated by a cavitation phenomenon. In this paper, the cavitation bubble plasma technology is explained by introducing the originally developed apparatus, the discharge phenomenon, and the effect of cavitation bubbles. As application examples of cavitation bubble plasma, the results of water dispersion of carbon nanotubes, synthesis of silver nanoparticles, sterilization of Escherichia coli, and decomposition of methylene blue are introduced.