Researchers have developed a new hand-held device that can produce room-temperature plasmas for biomedical applications. The source, which was developed by Mounir Laroussi and XinPei Lu at the Old Dominion University in Virginia, could be used to kill bacteria, heal wounds and treat plaque (Appl. Phys. Lett. 87 113902).
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