Table 1. Application of cold plasma technology in different manufacturing industries

Sector	Application	Reference
Medicine	- Sterilization- Wound healing- Disease treatment	- Klämpfl et al. (2012)- Isbary et al. (2013)- Isbary et al. (2011); Keidar et al. (2013)
Agriculture	- Enhance seed germination	- de Groot et al. (2018); Ling et al. (2015); Sivachandiran and Khacef (2017)
Food industry	- Inactivation of foodborne pathogenic and spoilage microbes- Enzyme inactivation- Mycotoxin degradation- Improvement of biological activity of natural materials- Meat curing	- De Souza Silva et al. (2019); Jayasena et al. (2015); Lee et al. (2023); Mahnot et al. (2020); Moutiq et al. (2020)- Chutia et al. (2019); Kang et al. (2019); Pankaj et al. (2013)- Misra et al. (2019); Puligundla et al. (2020); Sen et al. (2019); Wu et al. (2021b)- Baek et al. (2021); Choi et al. (2018); Kim et al. (2014a); Kim et al. (2017)- Jung et al. (2015a); Jung et al. (2015b); Jung et al. (2017b)
Environmental management	- Degradation of contaminants such as pesticides and dyes- Decontamination and treatment of wastewater	- Pankaj et al. (2017a); Sarangapani et al. (2016)- Kim et al. (2018); Patange et al. (2018); Van Nguyen et al. (2019); Van Nguyen et al. (2020)
Catalysis and material science	- Surface modification and functionalization- Sterilization	- Ibrahim and Eid (2020); Nwabor et al. (2022); Wang et al. (2003); Yoshinari et al. (2011)