.A Bogaerts, W Z Wang, A Berthelot, V Guerra, Modeling plasma-based CO2 conversion: crucial role of the dissociation cross section 2016 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 25 055016.

.S Kolev, S Sun, G Trenchev, W Z Wang, H Wang, Quasi‐neutral modeling of gliding arc plasmas 2016 Plasma Process. Polym., DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201600110.

.W Z Wang, A Bogaerts, Effective ionisation coefficients and critical breakdown electric field of CO2 at elevated temperature: effect of excited states and ion kinetics 2016 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 25 055025. (This paper has been honorably designated by the editor as a Featured article and highlighted by being selected as an invited LabTalk by this leading journal in plasma physics due to its high scientific quality, http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0963-0252/labtalk/article/66507.)

.W Z Wang, A Berthelot, S Kolev, X Tu, A Bogaerts, CO2 conversion in a gliding arc plasma: 1D cylindrical discharge model 2016 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 25 065012. (This article is the first article which reveals the undying plasma chemistry of gliding arc based CO2 conversion by taking into account the detailed chemical kinetics.)

.W Z Wang, L H Kong, J Y Geng, F Z Wei, G Q Xia, Wall ablation of heated compound-materials into non-equilibrium discharge plasmas 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 074005.

.L H Kong, W Z Wang, A B Murphy, G Q Xia, Numerical analysis of direct-current microdischarge for space propulsion applications using the Particle-In-Cell/Monte Carlo Collision (PIC/MCC) method 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 165203. (Co first author).

.A Bogaerts, A Berthelot, S Heijkers, S Kolev, R Snoeckx, S Sun, G Trenchev, K Van Laer and W Z Wang, CO2 conversion by plasma technology: Insights from modeling the plasma chemistry and plasma reactor design (Invited review) 2017 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 26 063001 .

.M Ramakers, G Trenchev, S Heijkers, W Z Wang and A Bogaerts, Gliding arc plasmatron: providing an alternative method for carbon dioxide conversion 2017 ChemSusChem 10 2642–2652.

.W Z Wang, B S Patil, S Heijkers, V Hessel, A Bogaerts, Nitrogen fixation by gliding arc plasma: better insight by chemical kinetics modelling 2017 ChemSusChem 10 2145–2157. (This article has been designated as a very important paper by this prestigious journal (the top 5%) and selected as the front cover of the journal as the results are of high scientific quality. )

.W Z Wang, D H Mei, X Tu, A Bogaerts, Gliding arc plasma for CO2 conversion: Better insights by a combined experimental and modelling approach 2017 Chemical Engineering Journal 330 11–25.