Guest Editorial Special Issue on Dusty Plasmas.

This special Issue focuses on the field of dusty plasmas or also referred to as complex plasmas. Most of the papers were presented at the 8th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (8 ICPDP, ), which was hosted by Charles University and held in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 20–25, 2017. We would like to join the continuous tradition of special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science from April 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 associated with the other most important triennial meeting for the community, the Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas. We believe that these two conferences and papers connected to them reflect the current state of the art and progress in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]