Low Temperature Plasma-Based Sterilization: Overview and State-of-the-Art

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Inactivation of Surface-Borne Microorganisms and Increased Germination of Seed Specimen by Cold Atmospheric Plasma (2014, background): “Recent reports showed the potentiality of physical cold atmospheric plasmas (CAPs) in the field of life sciences (Laroussi 2005; Morfill et al. 2009).”
Cell permeabilization using a non-thermal plasma (2009, background): “On the one hand, the lethal effect of the plasma is used and applications are found in the sterilization of medical devices and the deactivation of yeasts and bacteria [1].”
Rapid Inactivation of Airborne Bacteria Using Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Grating Discharge (2007, methodology): “[10] M. Laroussi, “Sterilization of tools and infectious waste by plasmas,” Bull.”
Atomic-scale simulations of reactive oxygen plasma species interacting with bacterial cell walls (2012, background): “The plasma species under study are O2 and O3 molecules, as well as O atoms, which were previously identified as being biomedically important (see [11, 20–24]).”
The emerging role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in redox biology and some implications for plasma applications to medicine and biology (2012, background): “This is also true for plasma biomedicine results themselves; this paper makes no attempt to review this field as there are multiple recent reviews that have addressed this topic [1, 2, 4, 7, 8].”