The Advances of Cold Plasma in the Biomedicines
A special issue of Plasma (ISSN 2571-6182).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2782
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Interests: tissue regeneration; cancer treatment; detal treatment; plasma medical device
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Dear Colleagues,
Plasma used in industrial fields requires a vacuum state and has a characteristic of generating high heat. When the temperature of the plasma is less than 250 degrees Celsius, it is called low-temperature plasma. In order to be treated on human tissues, the temperature of the plasma must be less than 40 degrees Celsius. In that respect, it has recently been referred to as Cold Plasma. The definition of plasma used in the biomedical field seems to be more appropriate for cold plasma than for low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma or non-thermal plasma. Therefore, in this Special Issue, I look forward to the unified usage of the term “cold plasma”.
Plasma medicine, which started when cold plasma was applied to bacteria and cells, has made much progress for nearly 20 years. The scope of plasma research is expanding from just killing pathogens and cancer cells to tissue regeneration and selective cancer cell death. Among the numerous constituents of plasma, studies on which ones have medical functions and the mechanisms by which plasma-induced biomedical phenomena depend on are being actively conducted. Plasma medical devices are being developed based on these studies, and it is expected that various plasma medical devices will be introduced to the medical market in the near future.
In the current research climate, this Special Issue, as the joint special issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines/special_issues/Plasma_Biomedicines) with our sister journal /Biomedicines/ (ISSN 2227-9059), calls for all advanced plasma medicine research including various life phenomena induced by plasma. Experimental as well as review papers consistent with this research topic are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Gyoocheon Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cold plasma (non-thermal plasma, low temperature plasma)
- pathogen sterilization
- regeneration
- disease treatment
- medical device
- biomaterial
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