scholarly journals Variation in structure of proteins by adjusting reactive oxygen and nitrogen species generated from dielectric barrier discharge jet

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Hoon Park ◽  
Minsup Kim ◽  
Masaharu Shiratani ◽  
Art. E. Cho ◽  
Eun Ha Choi ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Gershman ◽  
Maria B. Harreguy ◽  
Shurik Yatom ◽  
Yevgeny Raitses ◽  
Phillip Efthimion ◽  
...  

AbstractThere is an urgent need for disinfection and sterilization devices accessible to the public that can be fulfilled by innovative strategies for using cold atmospheric pressure plasmas. Here, we demonstrate a successful novel combination of a flexible printed circuit design of a dielectric barrier discharge (flex-DBD) with an environmentally safe chemical reagent for surface decontamination from bacterial contaminants. Flex-DBD operates in ambient air, atmospheric pressure, and room temperature without any additional gas flow at a power density not exceeding 0.5 W/cm2. The flex-DBD activation of a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution results in the reduction in the bacterial load of a surface contaminant of > 6log10 in 90 s, about 3log10 and 2log10 better than hydrogen peroxide alone or the flex-DBD alone, respectively, for the same treatment time. We propose that the synergy between plasma and hydrogen peroxide is based on the combined action of plasma-generated OH· radicals in the hydrogen peroxide solution and the reactive nitrogen species supplied by the plasma effluent. A scavenger method verified a significant increase in OH· concentration due to plasma treatment. Novel in-situ FTIR absorption spectra show the presence of O3, NO2, N2O, and other nitrogen species. Ozone dissolving in the H2O2 solution can effectively generate OH· through a peroxone process. The addition of the reactive nitrogen species increases the disinfection efficiency of the hydroxyl radicals and other oxygen species. Hence, plasma activation of a low concentration hydrogen peroxide solution, using a hand-held flexible DBD device results in a dramatic improvement in disinfection.









2016 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 180-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaw Lin ◽  
Mitsunobu Yoshida ◽  
Yuki Uesugi ◽  
Karthik Paneer Selvam ◽  
Takeshi Nishikawa ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 135 (7) ◽  
pp. 435-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Takahashi ◽  
Kohki Satoh ◽  
Hidenori Itoh ◽  
ichi Itakura


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