Bacterial decontamination of the inner wall of narrow tubes by a nitrogen afterglow at atmospheric pressure and its relation to local atomic nitrogen concentration

Plasma Processes and Polymers

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 679-685

  Limam, Soukayna ^a   Odic, Emmanuel ^a   Kirkpatrick, Michael J ^a   Pointu, Anne Marie ^b  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

bacterial decontamination; high pressure discharges; plasma medicine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SPECIES; ATOMIC NITROGEN; AXIAL CONCENTRATION; BIOCIDAL EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI BACTERIA; HIGH PRESSURE DISCHARGE; NITROGEN AFTERGLOW; PLASMA MEDICINES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIA; CATHETERS; DUCTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ENDOSCOPY; EXTRAPOLATION; NITROGEN PLASMA; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

DECONTAMINATION;

EID: 84881160443     PISSN: 16128850     EISSN: 16128869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201200170     Document Type: Article

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