Bernd Steffes

TL;DR: Cold atmospheric plasma has been shown in vitro to kill a wide range of pathogenic bacteria and is shown to slow healing of chronic wounds.

TL;DR: Cold atmospheric plasma is an innovative promising tool to deal with the development of antibiotic resistance by microorganisms in chronic wounds and bacterial colonization is associated with impaired healing.

TL;DR: This review gives an overview on potential plasma applications in medicine – including the recent research on skin diseases – and summarizes possible interactions between plasmas and living tissue.

TL;DR: A new, very efficient, large area scalable and robust electrode design for plasma production in air at atmosphere pressures has been developed and tested, which has made the development of a 'plasma dispenser' for hospital disinfection possible and has certain advantages over current fluid disinfection systems.

TL;DR: An atmospheric low-temperature microwave plasma torch has been developed and applied to disinfection as discussed by the authors, where the size of the plasma output is relatively large (35 mm in diameter) and argon gas at a flow rate of 2.2 slm and 85 W microwave power are used.