{"id":90108,"date":"2019-04-29T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/non-thermal-plasma-new-technology-could-kill-99-9-of-the-deadly-germs-in-the-air"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:22:44","slug":"non-thermal-plasma-new-technology-could-kill-99-9-of-the-deadly-germs-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/non-thermal-plasma-new-technology-could-kill-99-9-of-the-deadly-germs-in-the-air","title":{"rendered":"Non-thermal plasma: new technology could kill 99.9% of the deadly germs in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-thermal-plasma-new-technology-could-kill-99-9-of-the-deadly-germs-in-the-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can\u2019t live without air for more than three short minutes. It\u2019s not just the abundance of air that matters \u2013 the quality is essential, too. Unfortunately, air can be contaminated with dangerous germs known as airborne pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Airborne diseases are very easily transmitted, and can result in respiratory illness that can be life threatening. It\u2019s therefore no wonder that outbreaks of airborne infectious diseases are a major public health concern, and that researchers are working hard to come up with technologies to provide clean air. So far, however, such technologies have had limited success.<\/p>\n<p>Now a new study suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonthermal_plasma\">non-thermal plasma<\/a> \u2013 a cool gas made up of electrically charged particles, despite having no overall charge \u2013 could inactivate airborne viruses and <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6463\/ab1466\/pdf\">provide sterile air<\/a>. Although the technology has a long history and many applications (in medicine and food industry), this is a completely new use for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-non-thermal-plasma-technology-deadly-germs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can live without food for three weeks and without water for up to three days. But you can\u2019t live without air for more than three short minutes. It\u2019s not just the abundance of air that matters \u2013 the quality is essential, too. Unfortunately, air can be contaminated with dangerous germs known as airborne pathogens, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90108","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}