Feasibility study of the sterilization of pork and human skin surfaces by atmospheric pressure plasmas

Se Youn Moon; D. B. Kim; B. Gweon; W. Choe; H. P. Song; Cheorun Jo

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2009.02.018

Feasibility study of the sterilization of pork and human skin surfaces by atmospheric pressure plasmas

Se Youn Moon
, D. B. Kim
, B. Gweon
, W. Choe^*
, H. P. Song
, Cheorun Jo

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Quantum System Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Chungnam National University

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Abstract

Atmospheric pressure radio frequency (rf) glow discharge characteristics were studied aiming for the plasma treatment of living tissues such as pork and human skin. Electrical and optical measurements of the plasma gave reasonable values at low current of 4 mA and gas temperature of 60 °C at 100 W. The colorimetric measurement of the treated pork sample demonstrated negligible thermal effect from the plasma. In addition, the sterilization efficiency of Escherichia coli inoculated on pork surface was comparable with that of a conventional UV sterilizer. The experimental results promise that the atmospheric pressure rf plasma can be safely applied to human skin treatment without electrical and thermal damage.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4272-4275
Number of pages	4
Journal	Thin Solid Films
Volume	517
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.02.018
State	Published - 2009.05.29

Keywords

Activation energy
AlO films
Catalytic CVD
Catalyzers
HW-CVD
Oxide films

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Feasibility study of the sterilization of pork and human skin surfaces by atmospheric pressure plasmas

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