Low-Temperature Plasma for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 4280
Special Issue Editor
Interests: modeling of basic data (ion-atom collision cross section, atomic and molecular ion mobility and diffusion coefficients, constant rates) for low temperature plasma generator optimization used for several applications (pollution control, biomedicine and spacecraft propulsion), Monte Carlo simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of low-temperature plasmas in biomedicine has become a well-established field of research and application. In addition to their original direct applications in surgery tool sterilization, wound healing, and blood coagulation, the use of cold plasmas either via direct applications or indirectly using plasma-activated media, for example, in cancerous cell inactivation or seed inhibition in agriculture, has recently emerged as a very promising field of research. In particular, cold plasmas using rare gases as the carrier gas (rare-gas plasmas) have proven their big potential in biomedical applications. Several research groups have been involved for many years in both cold plasma generator diagnostics and/or modeling of plasma reactors dedicated to several applications and, more specifically, to low-temperature plasma biomedical applications. As a complement to experiments, plasma reactor modeling allows quantifying and optimizing the formation of the different active species that play an active role in these different applications. Some of these research groups work in very tight collaboration with hospitals and cancer clinics in order to test the efficiency of rare-gas cold plasma jets in, for example, malignant cancerous cell inactivation. This Special Issue entitled “Low-Temperature Plasma for Biomedical Applications” intends to collect and diffuse both experimental and modeling research of low-temperature plasma for biomedical applications.
Prof. Dr. Malika Benhenni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low-temperature plasma
- plasma generator diagnostics
- modeling
- cancer therapy
- sterilization
- blood coagulation
- wound healing
- plasma agriculture
