Cold plasma is an emerging food processing technology which has been shown to effectively inactivate pathogenic bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi. The process uses high-voltage electricity to ...

Why has plasma processing captured the imagination of bioscientists so strongly and what triggered its rapid rise in popularity? James Tyrrell catches up with Uroš Cvelbar of the Jožef Stefan ...

Researchers at McGill University have found that briefly treating peanuts with cold plasma, an ionically charged gas that ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In spite of its high cost and technical importance, plasma equipment is still largely ...

The year 1981 was notable for a variety of technology breakthroughs. It saw the inaugural mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the debut of the DeLorean car. The IBM PC, Commodore 64, and the ...

Using various types of plasma that confer different surface chemistries, including cleaning plasmas for targeted removal of chemical contaminants, 3-dimensional treatment is directed only at exposed ...

In plasma processing, the term "heterogeneous processes" includes all chemical and physical reactions that occur when a flux (or fluxes) of species is (are) incident on a surface and the interaction ...