Decontamination of surfaces from extremophile organisms using nonthermal atmospheric-pressure plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 6 PART 1, 2009, Pages 866-871

  Cooper, Moogega ^a   Fridman, Gregory ^b   Staack, David ^c   Gutsol, Alexander F ^d   Vasilets, Victor N ^e   Anandan, Shivanthi ^b   Cho, Young I ^a   Fridman, Alexander ^a   Tsapin, Alexandre ^f  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

^d CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^e SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure discharges; Cold plasma; Dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs); Plasma decontamination; Sterilization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CYTOLOGY; DECONTAMINATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FLOW CONTROL; LAMINAR FLOW; PLASMA SOURCES; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); WATER TREATMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE DISCHARGE; COLD PLASMAS; COLONY FORMING UNITS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE PLASMAS; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; EXTREMOPHILES; LOG REDUCTIONS; PLASMA DECONTAMINATION;

DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE;

EID: 67650320824     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2010618     Document Type: Article

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