The plasma pencil: A source of hypersonic cold plasma bullets for biomedical applications

被引：71

作者：

Laroussi, Mounir ^{[1
]}

Hynes, Wayne ^{[1
]}

Akan, Tamer ^{[2
]}

Lu, Xinpei ^{[3
]}

Tendero, Claire ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA

[2] Osmangazi Univ, TR-264809 Eskisehir, Turkey

[3] Huazhong Univ, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China

[4] Univ Toulouse 3, F-31062 Toulouse 9, France

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE | 2008年 / 36卷 / 04期

关键词：

bacteria; nonthermal plasma; plasma bullet; plasma jet; plume; sterilization;

D O I：

10.1109/TPS.2008.922432

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

Cold plasma jets and their interaction with materials and media have recently been very active research topics. The low gas temperature enables applications in various fields, including medicine. In bioapplications, for example, it involves radiation and reactive species created by the plasma jet to modify or kill prokaryotic cells (bacteria) or eukaryotic cells (mammalian cells). In this paper, we present photographs of a pulsed cold plasma plume/jet that turned out to be a series of high-velocity plasma "bullets" or "packets." These bullets travel at hypersonic speeds, and these transport with them chemically reactive species and deliver them to the surface of samples tinder treatment.

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页码：1298 / 1299

页数：2