Cold Plasma in Medicine and Healthcare: The New Frontier in Low Temperature Plasma Applications

• DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00074
• Publication Date: 2020-03-20T12:43:55Z
• Authors: Mounir Laroussi
• Keywords: Plasma Medicine; Frontier

Low temperature plasmas that can be generated at atmospheric pressure and temperatures below 40 oC have in the past couple of decades opened up a new frontier plasma applications: biomedical applications. These sources produce agents, such as reactive species (radicals non-radicals), charged particles, photons, electric fields, which impactful biological effects. Investigators been busy elucidating physical biochemical mechanisms whereby low affects cells on macroscopic microscopic scales. A thorough understanding these is bound to lead development novel plasma-based medical therapies. This mini review introduces reader this exciting multidisciplinary field research.