{"id":177489,"date":"2023-12-05T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/lightning-sparks-scientists-design-of-ultraviolet-c-device-for-food-sanitization"},"modified":"2023-12-05T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:24:44","slug":"lightning-sparks-scientists-design-of-ultraviolet-c-device-for-food-sanitization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/lightning-sparks-scientists-design-of-ultraviolet-c-device-for-food-sanitization","title":{"rendered":"Lightning sparks scientists\u2019 design of ultraviolet-C device for food sanitization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-sparks-scientists-design-of-ultraviolet-c-device-for-food-sanitization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a portable, self-powered ultraviolet-C device called the Tribo-sanitizer that can inactivate two of the bacteria responsible for many foodborne illnesses and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribo-sanitizer\u2019s UVC lamp is powered using the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/triboelectric+effect\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">triboelectric effect <\/a>\u2014electricity that is generated when two dissimilar materials come into contact. In tests, the Tribo-sanitizer successfully inactivated two potentially deadly foodborne bacteria, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes, mainly by damaging their DNA, according to findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2211285523005128?via%3Dihub\">published<\/a> in the journal Nano Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The bacteria selected as testing targets are two of the most common causes of serious foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S. Escherichia coli produces toxins that can cause severe abdominal cramps, fever, bloody diarrhea, and kidney failure, and Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, which has the highest rates of hospitalization and mortality of any foodborne illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a portable, self-powered ultraviolet-C device called the Tribo-sanitizer that can inactivate two of the bacteria responsible for many foodborne illnesses and deaths. The Tribo-sanitizer\u2019s UVC lamp is powered using the triboelectric effect \u2014electricity that is generated when two dissimilar materials come into contact. In tests, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}